Mail locks up when trying to receive new email - help

I'm trying to fix mail.
It's having trouble fetching new mail. When i look at the activity viewer, the progress bar just seems to hang up. If i click on the stop buttons, the progress bar fades out. Then I can't do anything , so I have to force quit mail.
There don't seem to be any issues send mail just recieveing.
The macbook pro is running Leopard 10.5.8
The total file size for the mail folder is 28.2 gb
There are 45,000+ mails and 12,000 unread mails.
One thought i had would be that mail would be full, given the size of the mail folder, and that the issue could be mail is struggling to write incoming emails to it's database.
Does Mail have a maximum total capacity for the number of emails it can hold?
Other than that i'm stuck.
I thought rebuilding the mailboxes could help but it doesn't appear to be doing anything.
Any help would be great thanks!!!!!

I had this problem a month ago on my Mac Pro, running 10.5.8, and close to the same number of messages you have (48,000). But I was able to successfully rebuild my mailboxes...it took a few hours to complete.
You might try moving your preferences file to the desktop or a backup drive: User > Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist
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8:29 pm Sunday; March 9, 2014
 iMac 2.5Ghz i5 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
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