How to stop 30,000  emails from downloading?

I had to reset my Mail, and now every single email in the last year is downloading onto my hard drive. Thank GOD I cleaned 10 gigs off it last night or it would have crashed by now. So far I think I'm up to 14 gigs of maiil larding up my hard drive, and there is no end in sight. I tried to set a rule, moving everything 90 days old or older to an archive on the server. Got an arror message that 9,700 or so messages couldn't be moved. I think I just ran out of space. Tried to select them all and delete them as they came in. Now it says, 0 messages, 7,305 unread, and the little import bar says downloading 23,000 out of 25,000 emails, and both those numbers keep growing.
I don't want to have to delete every single email on the server. There's stuff in there I still need, and I want to be able to run a search term for it, and once a year or so I move it all off to a hard drive and start fresh.
In the old days, I'd just go into my mail folder in my library and clean all the mail folders out. But now I don't even see a mial folder in my library, and when I run a query for .emix, all the mail that pops up shows it resting simply in mail, not in a library. My avaialble gigs are steadily decining, and the computer that was fast this morning is now slow again.
IS THERE A WAY TO HALT THIS DOWNLOAD WITHOUT HAVING TO DELETE EVERYTHING ON THE SERVER???  And how do I get this mail off my machine?????
Thanks in advance!!!

I seem to have figured out one way to do this: (1) I paused all downloads from the ATV, (2) downloaded all the files through iTunes onto my iMac, (3) shutdown and restarted my ATV by unplugging it from the mains supply. When I checked the Download menu on the ATV the list of files to be downloaded was empty.

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