Tons of Incoming Messages

I am having a big problem with Apple Mail since upgrading to Mavericks. I have iCloud mail and my work email account is using IMAP. After upgrading everything was where it should be and it all looked OK. I received a few new emails and sent some too. A little later the Mail Activity showed Incoming Messages and it just kept going and going. When the first number reached the second number (xxxxx of xxxxx), the second number would jump higher and the process repeated itself over and over. During this time it would not receive any new email. If I quit Mail and started it again it would get new mail and then go back to the Incoming Messages activity problem. I saw it get up to 16 million!! I restarted Mail and it started over again from 0. I left it on overnight and in the morning everything looked normal with new email showing in the window. Then it problem started over. Right now the Incoming Messages activity is up over 520,000. No new email is showing even though there is new email on my other Mac. What is going on?

Same problem here. It doesn't seem to affect performance. I have 1 gmail account syncing, 2 Office 365 accounts (one university, one work) and one .me/.mac/.mobileme/.icloud account. I honestly don't even know what the mac one is called anymore. I cleaned up all the accounts through their respective web portals. There is nothing in the drafts, or spam, or even inboxes. There is a ton of archived messages in the gmail account, but no where near 22 million.
If anyone finds a solution it would be much appreciated.
-- mc

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