Corrupt mail crashes mail

I have  a piece of mail in my mailbox that is corrupted and I can't delete it. Every time I try To delete it, the mail app crashes and all of the mail I had successfully deleted come back. How can I delete this and get my iPad back to normal?

What kind of email account is it?  Are you running iOS 4 or later?  There was a glitch with 3.x where corrupted Shaw emails couldn't be read and would crash the whole application.  Either update to 4.x or log into the mail server and delete the bad emails off there, then delete and re-add the account to the iPad.

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