IPhone syncing Mail application forever

When I go to sync my iPhone 3G it stays on Syncing mail accounts with "iPhone" forever......I stopped it after it had been running this way for 3 hours....what is going on and how do I fix it?

Just had that problem today and found the cause. What it will be is that there will be a dialogue box saying that more than 5% of your calendars or contacts have changed and it wants to know if it is okay to continue the sync - the trouble is that the dialogue box is in the background!!!! Just minimise all your open windows and you will see the box sitting there awaiting your input! Silly bug that should have been fixed.
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