How to stop sending

Karl,

Quit Mail, if running, and in the Finder open Home/Library/Mail/Mailboxes and locate the Outbox.mbox folder. Delete this folder, relaunch Mail, and when you next compose and send a new message, Mail will create a new one.

Holding down the Shift key while clicking to launch Mail will prevent lots of things from happening, but not sure whether it applies to a message caught in the Outbox and not yet sent.

Ernie

Karl,

To clarify -- holding down the Shift key while clicking on the Mail icon to launch it (assumes Mail is not running) prevents Mail from trying to open any previous email or mailbox. What I meant was that I could not say whether it would stop Mail from trying to send a message that cannot be sent.

But if thing are normal, but you want to stop a slow sending message, click on Window in the menubar and choose Activity. In that resulting window you can click to stop certain actions, including sending. Normally Mail should quickly tell you that a particular SMTP cannot be used, and offer a chance to change that? Are you getting any message about not being able to send?

Ernie

Thank you Ernie!

I had the same problem. I tried to send an email with what was probably a file too large to handle.

Wholly Rod