Reply window semi freezes and can't type in a reply when...

there seems to be links contained in a message or from a particular user. Strange behavior follows where I can't type in the within the message nor can I close the window. Must quit and restart Mail to close the window. Same thing happens again if I attempt to reply to the same message. Anyone experience similar strange behavior in Mail?

I've played around a bit with the settings and have pinpointed it to occur when there is a message (apparently with links (in this case more than 4) ) that Apple Mail doesn't like (yet it doesn't mark it as junk) and you have "quote text of original messages" (which I believe is default and as well as necessity when repsonding) the reply button doesn't work by selecting the message and hitting the reply or selecting reply from the Menu (forwarding also doesn't work) You can get a bit further by opening the message and then hit reply, but you end up in no mans land because you can't type in the message nor can you close the window. I end up quitting Mail which reopens to the message view this time  allowing you to close the window upon which you'll find other instances of the message in draft for each time you attempted to close it. Then you can delete and get back to where you were with exeception of being able to relpy to that particular message until after you turn off the "quote" setting in preferences. If you want to then go back and reply to that user from that message, you can can turn off the quote preference but then you just end up with an empty message. In other words you might as well start a new message to the same party and then you can actually go back and copy and paste the latest message.
So in sum - Identification of a bug as well as presentation of a work around. I'll report to Apple...

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