Sent Mail, Won't Read

When I'm online and try to access my sent emails this is the message that appeares where the sent email body should be:
The message from XXX <[email protected]> concerning XXX has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it.
The thing is, is I am already online. This issue has gradually developed. I used to be able to access my sent mail no problem. Then I started getting this message. At first I could resolve it by rebooting mac mail. When That no longer worked I would resolve it by rebooting the computer. Now nothing works. All other functions in mac mail seem to work fine. I currently have 61 messages in the sent file.
I recently ran fsck and it said everything seemed to be OK.
I'm running a 1.8 gig single processor G5 with OS 10.3.9, and mail 1.3.11 (V622/624).
Thank you,

Since the account's Sent mailbox is well over the recommended mailbox size limit for Panther Mail and remains 1.7 GB in size, the messages remain in the mailbox.
Quit the Mail.app first and using the Finder go to Home > Library > Mail > this POP account named folder (named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account) > Sent Messages.mbox.
Move the Sent Messages.mbox to the Desktop.
Launch Mail and a new Sent Messages.mbox will be created automatically by Mail within the account named folder when sending the next message with the account.
This will allow the Mail.app to function properly again and not risk losing any new messages sent with this account while trying to recover the existing messages in the old Sent Messages.mbox moved to the Desktop.
Send me an email and I'll forward you an mbox breaker script that splits such a mailbox into smaller sections. There is no guarantee with this script but it has worked well for others. If this doesn't work, the messages will be lost.
My email address is allan underscore sampson at mac.com

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