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How do I delete an outgoing email that keeps crashing Mail?

Hello,


I tried sending an email this morning. It was addressed to about 220 people, all BCCd.


When I hit send, I got the message:

Cannot send message using the server Gmail [it's a gmail account, obviously]

The server "smtp.gmail.com" did not recognize the following recipients:

Big list of every email address


I couldn't get out of this screen, so I force quit.


Now that message is still in the Outbox, and every time I try to open Mail, it tries to send that message again, and I get the same error message.

I ended up going onto gmail.com and just sending it from there with no issues.


I would like to delete this message so it would just stop crashing Mail, but I can't figure out how to do it.


Not sure how to proceed!


I'm running 10.7.3, the version of Mail is 5.2


Any help is much appreciated, thank you!

Mail-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Mar 26, 2012 6:18 PM

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Posted on Mar 26, 2012 6:59 PM

Try launching Mail after disconnecting from the Internet,, or find that .emlx file in the Finder & trash it.


Folder somewhere in...


Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/

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How do I delete an outgoing email that keeps crashing Mail?

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