Certain mailboxes freeze Mail

One of the mailboxes is locking up Mail when I select it. I get the first 10 emails listed then nothing and the program freezes. Strangely, I can right click on items but I can't choose another mailbox or perform any other functions.
I had this problem before and deleting plist or rebuilding didn't fix it. I had to use a back up which did work.
In this instance I don't have a backup as it's on another system.
Are other people getting lock-ups in Apple Mail with certain mailboxes?

Use the Finder to open Home/Library/Mail, and if these are On My Mac mailboxes, then further open the Mailboxes folder. If the mailbox that will freeze is the Inbox of the account (which I have not understood it to be) then in the Mail folder, open the POP account folder, and then the INBOX.mbox folder and tell me if there is anything in the INBOX.mbox except one Info.plist file and one Messages folder?
If in an On My Mac mailbox, then after opening the Mailboxes folder find this particular xxxx.mbox folder, open it, and observe the file and folder contained within.
If only one Info.plist file an one Messages folder are found, then do the following:
See the following support article for forcing a reindexing of all mailboxes:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/3.0/en/14019.html
Be sure to Quit Mail before doing this.
If other files and folders were found within any observed xxxx.mbox folder, post back before doing this.
Ernie

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