Spolight showing old deleted emails (and no account set-up in Mail app)

Hi everyone! Here is my current situation:
I had to remove my Yahoo Mail account in my Mail application months ago. So, there's no email account that is currently set-up with my Mail app with Mac right now. I was searching for a document in Spotlight and while in the middle of typing, it showed me old emails from my Yahoo Mail account.
I don't want doing a search in Spotlight and having history and results of my correspondences in my email showing in my Spotlight search. I want it completely gone in my Mac history. Is that possible?
Thank you in advance!

Launch Terminal (from Applications/Utilities) and type:
sudo mdutil -E /
It will then ask you for your password, go ahead and type it, (don't worry if it doesn't show up, that's normal) and hit enter. It will say that it is being rebuilt (the Spotlight database) , and just wait until it is done (time varies depending on size of drive, files, etc.). Voila!

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