Mail claims to be sending, but it should not be sending anything.

Hello,
It has now happened twice that I have turned my Macbook Pro on, and clicked on Safari and Mail at more or less the same time, to have the following very disturbing event take place:
1. Safari gets the spinning rainbow, while
2. The Mail "Sent Mail" menu changes to "Sending" with a spinning activity icon that indicates that it is in the process of lengthily sending something. Since there was absolutely nothing it should have been sending at that moment, I cut my internet connection and quit mail. When I have relaunched Mail with no internet connection, there has been no hint of what it might have been sending. There is nothing in Drafts, no Outbox folder, and nothing new or unread in Sent.
Last time it happened, I checked Console for the timeframe in which this occurred, and here was the smoking gun:
8/1/08 6:33:23 PM Mail[173] SyncServer is unavailable: exception when connecting: connection timeout: did not receive reply
8/1/08 6:33:23 PM Mail[173] Error registering sync schema: Can't connect to the sync server: NSPortTimeoutException: connection timeout: did not receive reply ((null))
8/1/08 6:33:23 PM Mail[173] Error registering sync client: Can't connect to the sync server: NSPortTimeoutException: connection timeout: did not receive reply ((null))
8/1/08 6:33:23 PM Mail[173] Error registering sync client: Can't connect to the sync server: NSPortTimeoutException: connection timeout: did not receive reply ((null))
8/1/08 6:33:23 PM Mail[173] Error registering sync client: Can't connect to the sync server: NSPortTimeoutException: connection timeout: did not receive reply ((null))
8/1/08 6:33:26 PM Mail[173] Can't connect to the sync server: NSPortTimeoutException: connection timeout: did not receive reply ((null))
Stack Trace: (
[lengthy stack trace edited out]
8/1/08 6:33:29 PM Mail[173] Can't connect to the sync server: NSPortTimeoutException: connection timeout: did not receive reply ((null))
Stack Trace: (
[lengthy stack trace edited out]
8/1/08 6:33:29 PM Mail[173] notes sync error:Error Domain=ISyncErrorDomain Code=300 "Operation could not be completed. (ISyncErrorDomain error 300.)"
8/1/08 6:33:37 PM SyncServer[187] * -[NSMachPort handlePortMessage:]: dropping incoming DO message because the connection or ports are invalid
So, OK, Mail is trying to sync. Here is the problem: I don't have a mail account that supports syncing or any handheld device with which I would need to sync, nor have I ever turned on any form of syncing in Mail, because, again, no devices or accounts that support syncing. So if there is an attempt to sync, it didn't originate with me.
What on earth is going on here? It looks terrible -- even if it's just an innocent UI bug, it gives the clear impression that Mail is sending unknown things at its own inclination, about the worst thing an email app could be appearing to do IMO. If anyone can shed any light on this weirdness, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks!

*there's no reason to be paranoid*
Says Mulder .
Anyway, as I mentioned, I don't use any sync-able email, just a very plain-jane POP email provider. iSync reports no devices and has nothing in its log, which matches my never having installed anything in need of syncing.
The thing is, if Mail says its sending something when nothing was ever sent, that's a largish bug whether it is actually sending something or isn't, and there isn't really enough info here to know which of those are the case. Maybe Mail just displays "Sending" because an attempt to do something reasonable is timing out, maybe it does an innocuous and normal POP thing using very confusing nomenclature, or maybe it's really trying to send something which has a wrong flag or something. There isn't really enough info to know what is going on, so I was hoping someone could identify the symptoms.

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