.Mac and Mail Problem

Several days ago an email was sent via my .Mac account. The email had an attachment that was too large so I deleted the message. The problem is that each time I try to use Mail and take the .Mac account online it attempts to send the message and when it cannot it recreates the message in the drafts folder. If left to its own accord there are several copies of the message in that folder. I have not ben able to download any emails during this time and surfing the web is extremely slow.
How do I kill this process for good? I have tried stopping all processes via the activity monitor. This just crashes the application.

I was able to change the preferences in Mail so that syncing and adding files to the server were not done. I then closed the application and restarted it again. The issue remained but then I reset the preferences to the original settings and restarted again. The problem now is resolved.

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