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I am stuck with a message in mail that will not send, and cannot be deleted. It has an overlay of a message saying 'the server 'stmp.gmail.com' failed to recognise the following recipients...... How can I delete it? The red 'close' button is absent, and none of the options work. I have tried to move it to 'trash' but it does not move.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), OS Sierra

Posted on Sep 17, 2018 10:53 PM

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Posted on Sep 18, 2018 6:02 PM

Hi Eric, Because mail was frozen, I phoned apple support to fix the problem. Their solution was to close down the computer and restart since I could not delete or quit mail. This worked, so I did not try your solution, but thanks for getting back to me.

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