Mail won't stop attempting to send message after 3 days

Greetings. My wife's iPhone 4 has been attempting to send a large message via Mail for the past 3 days. I'd like to stop the message since it's clearly not going to be sent. I've tried turning the phone off and on, but to no avail. The "Edit" box in the upper right corner is unavailable. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks so much and have a great day.

Have you tried deleting the message from the Outbox?
Restarting or resetting the device will never stop an email from sending. The only way to stop it is to delete the message or remove and re-add the email account.

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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. This will delete the problem message.
Launch Mail and a new Outbox.mbox will be created automatically by Mail within the Mailboxes folder and this should resolve the problem.
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