How-to end endless "recovered messages" in Mail?

I tried to send an email with PDF attachment using Mail (v.4.5) and my Gmail-IMAP account. No problems before. There was a slow connection and the message didn't send so I cancelled and later deleted the message. I thought I'd use Dropbox instead. But then that deleted message came back to haunt me, over and over and over. It won't stop filling up the "Recovered Messages" folder in Mail - along with the attachment.
I've re-booted, used Disk Utility to repair permissions, zapped PRAM, got rid of the .plist, rebuilt the mailbox. I can't think of anything else to try.
How can I end this once and for all?

I posted a very similar question.  The answers I received here did not help.  For anyone else looking, here is the solution that finally worked. My son found it via a Google search. While the answer refers to a gmail account, it works for others as well. I do not use gmail. The answer is copied and pasted in full to give credit where credit is due. While I am posting this, I didn't come up with it on my own:
Best answer - Sarah (Google Employee) Go to this answer
chessop
Please follow below steps.
1.Take your gmail account offline from Mail and delete the recovered messages folder.
2. Download the widget to show the hidden files fromhttp://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/hiddenfiles.html
3. Go to UserName/Library/Mail/IMAP-<username>@[email protected]/.OfflineCache
4. Delete all the data under .OfflineCache folder - DO NOT DELETE the folder.
5. Close Mail application and reopen.
This should do the job.
Best regards,
Aadi

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