Mail in Snow Leopard has broken. Keeps resending a large file attachment. Make it stop!

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Mail in Snow Leopard has broken. Keeps resending a large file attachment. Make it stop!

Our 2009 iMac running Snow Leopard has hit a snag with mail. After trying to send a bunch of attached photos, Mail stopped receiving messages and continually tries to resend the large message, even though we have done our best to delete it. Even when we do, a few minutes later, it will pop into the outbox again and start all over. We are now using Thunderbird but would like to get Mail back as it has all our organized folders on it. I've called our ISP and the problem is definitely with Mail, not our account. What now?

iMac 2.16 GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.8), MacBook 10.6.8, iBook G4, iMac DV

Posted on Apr 19, 2014 9:23 AM

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TildeBee

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Apr 19, 2014 9:26 AM in response to Mike BC

Mike --

Do you have any idea how large the attachment is?

Can you keep it on long enough to choose "Edit Message?"

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Mike BC Author

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Apr 19, 2014 9:52 PM in response to TildeBee

Hi Bee,

The attachents add up to 34.1 Mb.

The messages appear in a Recovered Messages (Telus) folder that shows up at the bottom of our list of folders. That folder fills up with copies of the 34.1 Mb email. After about 15 minutes there are 34 of them. I can only delete them one at a time after clicking on them. Trying to select all or batch delete unread causes mail to slow down to a crawl and affects all other applications. "Edit Message" doesn't seem to be an option.

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