How to stop mail from recovering the same message over and over again to the extent that it has wiped out all start up disk memory?

You need to find and delete (move to the Trash) the offline mail cache (.offline cache.) It's a hidden folder (files and folders with a preceding dot are hidden) inside the Mail folder (inside IMAP) in your user library. Since it's hidden, in order to see it run the following command in Terminal in Applications>Utilities. Hit return/enter once you have pasted in the command.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true ; killall Finder
To reverse this and hide all those hidden files and folders again
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool false ; killall Finder
Leave hidden files/folders enabled until you finish emptying the Trash so you know it's gone.

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I have tried that but it does not fix the problem.
The "card" group is not a previous recipient.
Although not available for editing in Contacts, it is a valid group showing up in the "To" field of Messages, Mail, or any app using the AddressBook.
Its associated file is automatically created in:
~/Library/ApplicationSupport/AddressBook/Sources/<hexaFolder>/MetaData/<hexa>ABG roup.abcdg
This is why it also shows up in the Spotlight results...
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@ reichard
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You're overlooking the obvious, as you suspected.
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Hi All
This is my messaging server version.
./imsimta version
iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)
libimta.so 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built 18:35:22, Sep 8 2003)
SunOS mum1pp1-a-fixed 5.8 Generic_117350-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880
One of our USER is frequently getting some mails which is not
addressed to him
To say clearly
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Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:28:17 +0220
From:
Katharine Charles <[email protected]>
Subject:
Katharine wrote
To:
[email protected]
Message-ID:
<01c71230$47857fd0$6c822ecf@deborapms>
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1.0
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X-Mailer:
Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510
Content-type:
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2
Content-transfer-encoding:
7bit
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X-MSMail-priority:
Normal
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rfc822;[email protected]
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8001
X-Mozilla-Status2:
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10096-1043648961
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Hi,
1. The version of Messaging you're using, is very,
very old. If you do not have a support contract, you
should at least download and apply 5.2p2.
What difference does it makes ?? can you explain
me..So Jay doesn't have to re-explain this for the thousandth time.
5.2p2 contains hundreds of fixes and can pro-actively fix problems that you may have not hit yet. We always recommend that customers all use up-to-date software if possible. In the same way that you should be patching your Operating System and other applications.
my ques ...
What will happen if i'm using "dnsverify" keyword in
TCP local channel ??
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I look into the documents on my computer and it is all these little images from emails i received. How do I stop it from downloading?

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My mail programme preferences are set to download manually.
In advanced, the account is not 'included in automatically checking for new mail'
I use scripts to send mails after certain tasks are ready. Sometimes (randomly) mail all of a sudden downloads all mail.
Anybody know what could cause this?
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What you're describing doesn't make sense. Mail doesn't download mail if it's set to wait for a manual initiation.
I know however...
But once that is check is initiated, any and all waiting mail will be downloaded.
I know.
I've never heard of this happening before, to anyone. Unless your preferences are corrupted, which there's no indication of at this point, something else is triggering Mail to check for new email.
I never heard either, hence posting
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Since downloading Lion when checking mail it will automatically open the next email. This has gotten me in trouble a couple of times as I wanted to not open them until a later time but once opened I needed to respond. Someone mentioned shrinking the screen but not sure what that meant.
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Another solution, perhaps -
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