Mail Delivery System Notifications won't go away

Hi all
Tiger 10.4.11, MacBook Pro, Apple Mail.
I have several Mail Delivery Status Failure notifications that I cannot get rid of. I delete them, they go in the trash, but I go into any other mail box and when I come back to the inbox, there they are again. Right now I have 5 separate messages, all exactly the same. The problem is that I e-mailed someone something that was too big for their server and got this as a notification. But I can't get rid!
I've junked my envelope index, and re-imported and rebuilt the mailbox. I've deleted off my server (they don't re-appear there) and can't think what else to try.
Any help please?
Thanks

I have now sorted this out - any kind of deleting didn't work, but using the "cut" command from the mail menu bar did.
Thank goodness, it's been driving me mad...

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