Why does my email show thousands(!) of incoming messages -- and more...!

How come every day when I log in and open my mail, the bottom of the email screen shows thousands of incoming messages -- see attached. This happens every day. Today was the highest amount I've ever seen -- 452449 -- and it is still running closed the mail program because I was worried it would take up space on my hard drive if that many messages were really coming in.
My normal messages appear in the in-boxes and a few junk emails. I've had gmail since it started, but even if it was downloading my entire history of emails, I doubt I would be anywhere near ten thousand.
I use a few different gmail accounts and read the email on the Mail program on Mavericks 10.9.2 on a 2011 Air.
Thanks!

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