Mail is slow (Sending small email takes 2 mins)

Mail has been extremely slow for some time now.
My Mail V2 folder seems to have some redundant folders:
- AosIMAP-<my user name>                  Inbox is 66 MB
    All the boxes in here show recent dates.
- IMAP-<my user name>@mail.mac.com            Inbox is 23 MB
     All the boxes in here show dates of 2012, except the Inbox which was updated a few minutes ago.
- Mac-<my user name>           Inbox is 63 MB
    All the boxes in here show dates of 2012, except the Inbox which was updated a few minutes ago.
I have no gmail accounts, just one live dot com account for work.
A search shows that I have some redundant emails.
For example, one 2013 email is in
- AosIMAP-<my user name>
and
- Mac-<my user name>
What is the purpose of these 3 mailboxes?
Thanks.
Mac

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