Apple Mail with defunct smtp trying to display 800 alerts or so

Apple Mail, after upgrading to Maverick, now tries to display > 800 alerts for automatic mail forwards that it apparently now cannot send because of some issue I probably have to troubleshoot. It deadlocks to that behavior, too, so each time I force quit out and try to re-open is like rewind/ play.
The problem must be that Apple Mail seems to have an entirely un-interruptable sequence of actions that the user has entirely no control over whatsoever. It first will open the mail and mailboxes. And even though I can try to be fast and change settings to "try to send later" instead of "present list with SMTP options", the step of " trying to understand what user means by changing that setting" has not been programmed yet.
So with great irreverence, I can do whatever I want and Apple Mail will always end up trying to pull up >800 single little alert windows telling me the most obvious, which is, that it cannot send a message, .
It would have been enough to present exactly one error saying "cannot send >800 message". Or to start with a preferences dialog without going into uninterruptable auto gah gah.
Where would I find a text file with Apple Mail preferences that I can edit to change the behavior of the program? Deleting ~ / Library / Mail / ... / Drafts did not cause any effect as all drafts and subsequent errors remained there stubbornly but reliably.

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Path:
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