Sent Messages.mbox – full yet not accessible

my Mail Box Sent folder displays items listed yet when I select them I get the message:
“You need to take this account online in order to download it“
as I am online I presumed that this was an error so I went to >Mailbox>Rebuild. which cleared all the listings in the Sent mailbox!!! realising I should of backed up first.
I then exploerd and found (via Library>Mail>POPaccount>) “Sent Messages.mbox” which is 1.9Gb. As I regularly delete items to stop overfilling the account and that there are no messages in the Sent folder, is it because it is still remebering deleted files?
Can I still restore “Sent Messages.mbox” which is still 1.9Gb??
G5 1.6GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

resolved thanks to Allan Thompson link from another post:
http://web.mac.com/allan_sampson/iWeb/Downloads/MBOX%20Breaker%20Script.html
G5 1.6GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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