Mail is downloading 9000 old messages from March

Restarting and opening Mail this morning, strangely, Mail is downloading about 9000 (yes, nine thousand) old messages from last March. WHY?
I tried clicking on the X to cancel it, thinking it might just be a glitch, but then it started back up again.
Can you explain what's going on?
Thanks!

I have three accounts. I didn't know the answer to your first question, but looking in my Accounts under Preferences I see IMAP under the Gmail account and POP under the two comcast accounts.
It's too late to see whether it will still do it. They all finished downloading within a half hour or so of posting my question this morning.
Now Mail is working normally, I've just been going through and re-deleting thousands of old emails. Quite annoying.
Thanks for replying. I'd love to hear if you have any idea why this happened.

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