Erasing Mac Mail Sent messages

As a customer of Earthlink, I use Mac Mail for e-mail. I have over 300 messages in my Sent box and would like to get rid of most of them, but that action seems to be blocked by one large file I sent recently that does not allow me to trash it and keeps all messages sent before it from being trashed. Earthlink tells me this is an Apple issue. Can anyone suggest what to do?

You might be better off re-posting this in the Mail for Panther forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=740
I remember threads from some years ago about big messages stuck in mailboxes and trashing something or other to fix it, but none of the details.

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Tim Cutting wrote:
Thanks for a very quick reply - and this is how this mailbox is set up.
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Tim Cutting wrote:
Thanks for a very quick reply - and this is how this mailbox is set up.
I have also had a bit of help and advice from a knowlegable friend and he thinks the source of the deletions may be that the account is an IMAP account on the new machine and my iphone but a POP3 accont on my old machine. I have turned off the old machine to see if this changes the behaviours on the other machines.
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