Snow Leopard, Mail and Recovered message

I just installed Snow Leopard and every time I open Mail, it "Recovers" some message 2 or 3 times, I never had this problems before, it began the next hour after installed SL.
Any idea please,
Thank you

Hi Ernie,
I run a private IMAP server I run on my home LAN - primarily for moving email between my Windows Live (Hotmail) mail folders, and Mac Mail. I use a PC to copy email from Hotmail to the IMAP server, and then the Mac to retrieve those messages (I'm also fairly new to Mac - well, the last time I used it in anger it was System 7!).
The private IMAP server is normally reliable, but occasionally a largeish file appears to fail to transfer from Mac to IMAP folder (never from PC to IMAP folder) - it then becomes 'stuck', not appearing in either the POP3 inbox, or the destination folder.
But - and this is the worrying part - Mail whirs away and 'recovers' the stuck email into a 'Recovered Messages' folder. A minute later it whirs some more and creates another copy of the SAME email in the same folder. A minute later and another copy is created.
This carries on - I've left it alone, restarted Mail, restarted the Mac, but each time it creates a new copy of the stuck email. I've seen 20 copies of the same email created. If left unchecked I could imagine it filling
I've tried moving the email out of the folder back into the POP3 inbox, into another IMAP folder, just deleting the messages and emtying the Mail trash - but each time Mail whirs away and carries on creating recovered copies of the same email.
The only way I have found to stop this from happening is to remove the account, restart Mail and then re-add the account for the IMAP server. It then downloads all the messages again and the problem is gone.
Is there just a way to remove the 'stuck' message, or tell Mail to ignore the recovered message so it doesn't create multiple copies?
Cheers, Richard

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