Safely deleting the mail files - getting triplicate (and more) attachments

Hello,
I've been weeding out duplicate files using Tidy Up and so far so good. Though I've yet to get the hang of it, because it appears to be missing some files.
At any rate, I've noticed (and I suppose it's been observed on here) that Mail (which I've installed so that it apparently downloads all my gmail stuff), has put several files that are now quadruplicate or quintiplicate files (particularly bothersome are the attachments that I seem to keep downloading).
Just wanted to check if it were "safe" to delete the entire mail folder in Library from time to time, to get rid of all this stuff?
Thank you.

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