My mail application is constantly recovering the same email over and over again. OSX 10.6. How do I stop it from doing this?

I had tried to send a mail earlier today and my email provider had issues, apparently.
While it eventually went through, the message I sent is being eternally recovered and rerecovered, filling the "Recovered Mail" folder with hundreds of copies of it.
It's an IMAP account and was working fine before today. Any idea how to fix this?
Thanks
-J

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