Outgoing message is locked in mail

I wrote an outgoing message in the maul program.  I'm unable to either send it or cancel it as both buttons are greyed out.  How can I reset my mail?

What if the message is already created by the user (clicked button "new message" in GUI)? Is there a list of last-created outgoing messages somewhere?
OK, that wasn't clear from your original post.
It is possible to ask Mail.app for all outgoing messages:
tell application "Mail"
  set newMessages to (get every outgoing message)
end tell
From there you can iterate through the list. The problem I see is that there's no obvious way of differentiating messages created by your script vs. messages created manually by the user. Maybe you have a plan for that.

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