I screwed up and sent an email that was MASSIVE

Like the title says, I sent an email earlier today with about 30gb of video and it was obviously was WAY to big for my iMac to handle. My dumb self even sent it through the mail app. Now when I open the mail app it takes up all of my ram. I have no idea how to delete the email that is located in drafts. When I try to delete it a notification says: The message “xxxx” could not be moved to the mailbox “Trash — On My Mac”“13371.emlx” couldn’t be copied to “Messages” because an item with the same name already exists. I archived the email and it did nothing to help. I promise I normally am not this big of an idiot but I am at a loss here.
Specs:
2012 iMac: 8gb Ram, 1tb hd, 2.9 processer.
It is a new computer and I have opened the activity monitor and currently the mail app is taking up 6.53 (half active, half inactive)gb of ram. Thats just not normal and the problem started today when I sent the email.
Thanks in advance for the help!

Back up all data.
Select the named mailbox in the mailbox list, then select
Mailbox ▹ Rebuild
from the menu bar. Try to delete the message again.

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