Dock Now showing small blank windows as mail?

For some reason my Dock now displays a long horizontal row of blank boxes that are mail messages when pointer is placed over them. Dock icons getting squeezed off to left. How to get rid of this?

Try trashing the plist in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
Logoff and back on.
This should reset the dock to "factory" state.
Note:
~ = your home directory
Regards,
Captfred

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