My email won't open or shut down on my taskbar

I have a 15 in macbook pro. My email won't open or shut down on my task bar. Therefore my macbook will not completely shutdown and I can't check my emails. What do I do?

Use Force Quit
 > Force Quit... > select Mail and force quit.

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