Mail stuck on "updating color for message 10 of 11"

- the above message just runs constantly. I have repaired permissions, restarted several times but Mail just sits and updates color. Does anyone know how I can deal with this? How do I find message 10 of 11? Should I delete it? Or are there other ways to deal with it?
Thanks

I, too, am having emails in the list show up colored to yellow. It's not a smart box and it's not the coloring to the background that occurs when it's threaded.
Though I do have rules that apply color, none of them use yellow.
I have rebuilt the box to no avail.
Puzzled.
PB G4 1ghz 17" Mac OS X (10.3.9) Mail 1.3 (v606/623)

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According to your description, if owa works fine, it most likely a outlook client issue.
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21/11/2014 20:37:13,006 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
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0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff972c264c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff8d1966de objc_exception_throw + 43
2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff972c242a +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 106
3   Foundation                          0x00007fff92f485b9 -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 195
4   Mail                                0x00007fff9760147e -[MFIMAPAccount _IMAPMailboxForMailbox:name:createIfNeeded:] + 219
5   Mail                                0x00007fff97601350 -[MFIMAPAccount IMAPMailboxForMailbox:createIfNeeded:] + 91
6   Mail                                0x00007fff97662699 -[MFLibraryIMAPStore initWithCriterion:mailbox:readOnly:] + 569
7   Mail                                0x00007fff976780e8 -[MFLibraryStore initWithMailbox:readOnly:] + 88
8   Mail                                0x00007fff9765452b +[MFLibrary importMessagesFromEnabledAccounts] + 3941
9   Mail                                0x000000010d3d8624 Mail + 1857060
10 CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff9719b33c __invoking___ + 140
11 CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff9719b192 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 290
12 MailCore                            0x00007fff952a30cc -[MCMonitoredInvocation invoke] + 242
13 MailCore                            0x00007fff952cd1d4 -[MCThrowingInvocationOperation main] + 48
14 MailCore                            0x00007fff9525571d -[_MCInvocationOperation main] + 426
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16 Foundation                          0x00007fff92e5d1a3 __NSOQSchedule_f + 184
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18 libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff937ba365 _dispatch_queue_drain + 1100
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