Can't open E-mail unless I stop "Mail" and restart it.

I get this prompt:
The message from Jim Huston <[email protected]> concerning “Nice Mpls 356 Coupe” has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it.
I dumped out have of my past E-mail, thinking it was too full. That didn't help.
Please advise.
Thanks,
Jim
Powermac G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

If you’re running Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), as your profile indicates, you probably have the problem described here:
Overstuffed mailbox is unexpectedly empty
Unfortunately, doing what the article suggests to solve this problem once the mailbox has already become “overstuffed” rarely works.
Because of the differences between Mail 1.x and Mail 2.x, however, further discussing your problem here might confuse other users with similar problems using Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), so please start a new topic in the Mail & Address Book - Mac OS X 10.3 & earlier forum, or just look for other threads discussing the same problem. This is actually a FAQ in that forum.

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