Mail on my MacBook pro not working

Good morning.
My mail account on my 13 inch MacBookPro has stopped working and I am out of ideas.
I can receive my mail on the iMac, the 15inch MBP and on the iTouch, synchronization is working and I can also receive mail via MobileMe.Also my wife using all the above also can send and receive mail. the Internet work on all machines.
The problem is isolated to mail account on the 13inch MBP. This was working until last night when I attempted send a very large file and half way through the message said can't send it via the server and I stopped it and deleted the outgoing message. I seem to recall that I received and sent messages after that.
I have rebooted and restarted, checked the settings with the iMac and the other MBP, all are the same. I have re set the modem. Also sent messages back and forwards via my wife's e-mail on the 13inch MBP and the iMac. All sent and received ok by the other units. I have sent messages from my account to my wife and myself from the imac. Received on iTouch, Mobileme and my wife's account ok.
The problem is isolated to the 13inch and the mail programme.
The 13inch MBp has a continually spinning wheel or the bell,( seems to alternate) and a file "on my Mac" which shows numerous times a message from me at 7.27 last night with no subject. I have no idea what that is.
I hope that this gives enough info to someone to point me in the right direction as to how to reset this machine and get the mail working.
I appreciate any assistance.
Thanks everyone

I just thought of another way to approach it:
Follow this path:
Quit Mail
Users - Library - Mail - POP-your email address folder (or IMAP if that's what you use).
You should find the following mailboxes (mbox) there:
Deleted Messages
Drafts
Inbox
Junk
Sent
Click on the Junk.mbox - Messages folder and manually drag/throw the offending message into the trash.
Empty trash.
(If you have more than one message there, throw them all out unless you want to keep junk messages because you won't be able to differentiate)
And if that doesn't work,
Graham might have a point - the only way I know of to clear caches is with a utility like Onyx. I just checked my Onyx and under Automation, it mentions clearing out caches as well as rebuilding Mail's envelope index. So, my next step would be to run Onyx and use the Automation tab. If you do not have Onyx, you can download it here (it's free):
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/onyx.html
After you install it, run it (you'll need your password) by running the default set under the Automation tab. You'll have to restart after it is done.
Trashing a .plist file is somewhat like "reloading" because that file contains all the settings for the application, so in essence you are starting over (except for the mailboxes which are still intact).

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