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Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail

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On 2016-10-03, Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 2016-10-03 16:12:52 +0000, Michael Vilain said:
>
>> In article <2016100312065562261-goodmanp@comcast.net>,
>>  Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> With the update to Sierra, I tried to use mail drop again to see if it
>>> cleared up the previous problems I was having with it.  I am still
>>> having problems; when trying to send the mail with a large attachment,
>>> it made my system unresponsive and I had to force quit and reboot.
>>> Mail runs fine now, but that one email is sitting in my outbox and any
>>> attempts to delete it cause my system to hang.  Is there anyway to
>>> delete the contents of the outbox outside of the mail program??
>> 
>> While I'm on 10.8.5, I've seen a similar problem with attachements
>> totaling more than 5MB. Most mail systems are configured to bounce stuff
>> larger than 5MB, so I use Dropbox or my web server and post a link.
>> 
>> To clear the problem, I delete the message and rebuild the mailbox.  If
>> Apple removed the Rebuild option from Mail, then try going into
>> ~/Library/Mail and poking around with Terminal.
>
> The problem is that I cannot delete the message.  As soon as I click on 
> it, i get the spinning beach ball and have to force quit.  If I just it 
> alone, everything works fine.

Let the beach ball spin a while rather than force quitting it
immediately.

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Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> - 2016-10-03 12:06 -0400
  Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Michael Vilain <mev94303y@yahoo.com> - 2016-10-03 09:12 -0700
    Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> - 2016-10-03 12:18 -0400
      Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-03 16:50 +0000
      Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-03 14:24 -0500
        Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> - 2016-10-03 22:29 -0400
          Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-10-03 19:50 -0700
  Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-03 16:17 +0000
    Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> - 2016-10-03 22:38 -0400

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