Mail application freezing / crashing when sending mail

Question

I've posted about this in other threads too, but decided to post about it as a new thread to see if anyone else has also experienced this.
I upgraded by first gen iPhone to firmware 2.0, and in general everything seems to be working fine with the exception of the minor lag issues that others have also reported when typing messages or selecting items in some scenarios.
The one annoying thing I have noticed though is that the mail application has now crashed twice, seemingly randomly when I've typed an email and then tried to send it. I don't know if the size of the message or length of time actually played into it but they were both on the long side. This happened from my Gmail IMAP account. Basically as soon as I clicked send it showed the sending bar at the bottom and then became unresponsive. It should be noted that the mail app was unresponsive and that the phone and the OS still seemed to be working as I could either force the app to quit or go into standby and then resume, which also seemed to kick it back to the launcher.
These two events were separated by about two days and a restore "as a new phone" (just to eliminate all possibility that the previous crash was caused by any flaw in the backed up settings). Also I'd successfully sent about 15 test emails back and forth in the interim without issue, and later in the same night also sent an email successfully to the same person.
At this point the issue seems random, for all I know it may never happen again, but given that when it does happen I seem to annoyingly lose the email I was typing; I thought I'd bring it up here to see if anyone else has experienced it.
In general the other functions of the phone and the apps all seem to be stable so at this point I would suspect the mail app itself or maybe a fluke with Goolge's servers rather than an issue with the phone.

Answer 1

I think the send receive issues and the issues I'm mentioning may be slightly different. The sending issue (based on another thread on the same subject) may have to do with "incorrect" SMTP server settings for a given account. From the sound of it, this issue will crash the app every time.
The random freezing I'm talking about seems to be general instability in the mail app itself since version 2. It's very possible that these two issues may be related in some ways. While at times the app is totally fine, I've had it freeze randomly a couple of times while simply flicking through an email. While this seemed totally random, I suppose it could have been linked to some of the background syncing operations that mail does. For example, as I was browsing through the mail the app tried to initiate a background sync, froze, and to me it appeared to be a random freeze.
While I could see someone dismiss this as a fault with my specific iPhone. I should mention that I never had this happen before 2.0, that it is the only app in 2.0 that has exhibited this specific behavior, and that every time it has happened it is the app that has crashed and not the phone itself. In other words, I can always do a forced quit back out to the OS and everything is fine. I actually have not experienced any of the random phone resetting issues that some people have noted, so as far as the OS is concerned, things seem stable in my case.