Funny mail behavior and an unidentifiable icon

I received an eMail that I cannot open nor can I delete it. Trying to open the message or quit mail causes Mail to forever show the pizza of death. Next to the Inbox folder an icon appears. It is a light blue circle with a dark blue wedge (image a white pie chart with a dark blue wedge positioned 12 to 12:30).
I have deleted it several times (from the server, inbox, account, trash, even in the mail folder on my hard disk). When I try to quit mail, it goes into a infinite loop, and I have to "force quit", which means the mail message is still there when I restart mail.
Nothing else on my computer seems to have been affected.
Any suggestions ? If so, thanks in advance,.

Glad it helped and thanks for the points.
Sometimes things just happen! Make sure you have tried and tested up-to-date backup should things take a turn for the worse. Fingers crossed it was just a hiccup.
If the old Mail icon is still in the Dock you may want to delete that by dragging it away from the Dock until it turns into a cloud, and release. You can re-add its icon when Mail is launched by clicking and holding on its icon in the Dock and selecting 'Keep in Dock'.

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