Mail locks up on launch - still sending huge file?

I tried to send a 400mb file and Mail crashed. Now every time I launch it, it just cycles the little gear and then locks up.
I think its still trying to send the file. I have attempted to use the pull down to the gear and hit the red stop signs, but the system stalls first and I need to force quit.
Can the app (Mail only) be re-installed fresh from the install discs?
Peter

Hello Peter.
No reason to re-install the Mail.app which rarely resolves any problems with the application.
With the Mail.app quit and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail > Mailboxes > Outbox.mbox.
The Outbox.mbox represents "Out" in the mailboxes drawer and is shared by all accounts.
Delete the Outbox.mbox and empty the Trash.
Launch Mail and a new Outbox.mbox will be created automatically within the Mailboxes folder and this should resolve the problem.
It is impossible to send a 400MB file as an email attachment with any email client or via webmail since most, if not all ISPs and email account providers have a limit on the overall size of received and sent messages.
For example, a .Mac account has a 10MB overall message size limit for received and sent messages and most ISPs and email account providers have a similar limit.
Email account providers also have a server size limit for all received messages and many have only a 10MB allowance. Both of my POP type accounts have a 10MB server size limit for all received messages so even if it were possible to send a message with such a large file and you sent the message to one of my POP accounts, it would be rejected at the incoming mail server since I have only 10MB of server storage space for all received messages.
In addition, all attachments must be encoded before being sent via an email client and the Mail.app uses MIME 1.0 for attachment encoding which is the internet standard.
The encoding process increases the size of the pre-encoded file by roughly 50% or so. A 400MB file will be roughly 600MB after the encoding process.
See What is the maximum size of email attachments? for information about the attachment encoding process with an email client.

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