E-mail opens 20+ message boxes without being prompted

When .Mail starts up, without touching another button, 20 or more previously read messages all open up their own message window and seize the processor until they all have opened on the desktop.
Any ideas what is possessing Mail to act so strangely? And ideas on how to troubleshoot would be much appreciated.
njakus

Launch Mail holding the Shift key down until the main window appears. This should prevent Mail from trying to select any mailboxes or load any messages upon start up.
BTW, if you’re using Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), as your profile indicates, it would have been more appropriate to discuss this in the Mail & Address Book - Tiger forum. If the discussion applies to both Mail 1.x and Mail 2.x, it doesn’t really matter, but it’s difficult to know that in advance.

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