Mail.app too many Ins and no outs

My Mail.app has never been innocent of odd lapses here and there. As a user with modest demands, I've ignored the less egregious problems. In recent days, my more egregious problems have escalated. My email client downloads messages from the POP server at its own convenience rather than mine, if indeed, it downloads anything at all. I use gmail as my one email account. My messages arrive and are retained in their entirety at the Gmail web site, but most never get downloaded by my Mail.app. My settings are on the money as illustrated by the fact that some messages are downloaded and are stored on my Mail.app In box. My ISP insists they are not a factor in this situation.
While searching for clues, I entered INBOX.mbox, on a whim, in Finder > File > Find and discovered I had five of them scattered around in my ~/Library. All had different numbers of messages (230-163-94-64-59). I have no idea what I did to fracture one In box into five dissimilar mailboxes. I am not nearly competent to know how to reassemble these five files into the original one.
It's been my experience that virtually every tweak and click I administer, unfailing makes matters worse. I need sage advice. I should add that Mail > Mailbox > Rebuild has had zero effect — nothing happened at all.

I'm afraid you're going to have a cow when you read this. After I said I wouldn't do any more stupid things, I did another stupid thing. I read in Gmail help somewhere to be sure I enabled POP, and to click save. What I was reading stated I should Enable POP for all mail (even that's been downloaded).
That was a big mistake, I got 723 messages.
I have another revelation to make that will give you a worse fit. I temporarily moved five folders to Trash from ~/Library > Mail because I thought they might be duplicates. Now I don't know if they're duplicates or not — I've included them here:
Mail copy
Mail
Mail copy
Mail 2
Mail copy 1
Outbox.mbox
[email protected]@mail.gmail.com
MessageSorting.plist
Mailboxes
LSMMap2
DefaultCounts
[email protected]
MessageSorting.plist.backup
[email protected]@pop.gmail.com
[email protected]@pop.mailaka.net
Active.mbox
Brandy.mbox
Deleted Messages.mbox
Outbox.mbox
online sales.mbox
Misc..mbox
Mike Greene.mbox
Mailaka.mbox
Family.mbox
Family
eBay.mbox
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded
INBOX.mbox
Deleted Messages.mbox
[email protected]@pop.gmail.com
[email protected]@pop.mailaka.net
MessageSorting.plist.backup
MessageSorting.plist
Mailboxes
INBOX.mbox
INBOX.mbox
INBOX.mbox
Sent Messages.mbox
INBOX.mbox
Susan.mbox
Kath.mbox
Matt.mbox
Ed.mbox
Lisa.mbox
Mailboxes
[email protected]@pop.gmail.com
[email protected]@pop.mailaka.net
MessageSorting.plist.backup
MessageSorting.plist
Deleted Messages.mbox
Sent Messages.mbox
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded
INBOX.mbox
Drafts.mbox
Sent Messages.mbox
Deleted Messages.mbox
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded
INBOX.mbox
Drafts.mbox
Outbox.mbox
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded
INBOX.mbox
Deleted Messages.mbox
When I converted them to List and collapsed the expanded folders, there were reams of stuff I never saw before.
Following is what you specifically requested: MessageSorting.plist.backup
MessageSorting.plist
Mailboxes
[email protected]@pop.gmail.com
Outbox.mbox
Deleted Messages.mbox
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded
Deleted Messages.mbox
Drafts.mbox
INBOX.mbox
Sent Messages.mbox.
I noticed another folder: [email protected]@pop.gmail.com
[email protected]@mail.gmail.com
[email protected]@pop.secureserver.net
MessageSorting.plist
Mail copy
[email protected]
MessageSorting.plist.backup
Mailboxes
DefaultCounts
LSMMap2
Deleted Messages.mbox
INBOX.mbox
Sent Messages.mbox
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded
Drafts.mbox
MessageSorting.plist
LSMMap2
MessageSorting.plist.backup
Mailboxes
DefaultCounts
[email protected]@mail.gmail.com
[email protected]@mail.piquenique.com
[email protected]@pop.gmail.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
INBOX.mbox
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded
Drafts.mbox
Deleted Messages.mbox
Sent Messages.mbox
INBOX.mbox
INBOX.mbox
Deleted Messages.mbox
Family
Active.mbox
Mike Greene.mbox
Mailaka.mbox
Outbox.mbox
Brandy.mbox
eBay.mbox
online sales.mbox
Misc..mbox
Family.mbox
Susan.mbox
Kath.mbox
Lisa.mbox
Ed.mbox
Matt.mbox
I'll understand if you want to wash your hands of this and bid me goodbye. I think a lot of my problem arises when my machine automatically makes duplicates without advising me of this.

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