Recovered messages folder in Mail

Hi Folks,
So what is with the 'Recovered Messages' folders in mail (Under the heading of 'On My Mac') ?
I have both my Gmail and my @me accounts running through mail (Under Mountain Lion OS) but I sent a rather large email the other day (Funnily enough to Apple Customer Support) and now the same email keeps coming back up in the Recovered Messages folder. I think the mail sent ok as it appears in my Sent box. So whats the deal with it then? Why have I got it? what does it do? and why does the same email keep reappearing?
Hope someone out there can help
Mark

Thats Odd though as I am not currently running Time Machine on my iMac. Does it htere was an issue with the email? if not then why does only this one email keep reappearing and not others that I send out?
Thanks for coming back though

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Hi,
Since Outlook running on Windows works well, it seems an issue on the Mac side. I suggest ask Mac for help so that you can get more professional suggestions.
More information for your reference:
Please try to verify whether there is any expired certificate from the computer personal store.
If it is the case, please remove them.
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2. Download the widget to show the hidden files fromhttp://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/hiddenfiles.html
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Ian
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Unhide your hidden files ( I used a widget from http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/hiddenfiles.html)
Go to your HD.
Go to Users.
Go to your House (home)
there should be a hidden Library folder there (it will be transparent)
Go to Mail in this folder
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Click on that and the next one will be a whole list of your mail servers, and one folder called Mailboxes
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This was GOLDEN for me. Reason being, when I went to delete my "recovered file" in mail, it would give me an error message " cannot delete 2500 files". I knew it was only 1 file so this was weird. Why 2500 files? Because if you click on the ebmx files like I did, hey presto, it turned out that they were ALL THE SAME MESSAGE = 2500 times. In each of those folders in the random numbers, in their related message folder.
Now remember - DONT delete the folder, make sure you have gone to the message folder, found all those pesky ebmx files and deleted THOSE, not the folder.
It worked for me. No restarting or anything. And recovered file. GONE.
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