Shut down cancelled because Mail failed to quit

Since the 10.8.1 update - and continuing with 10.8.2 - shut down often fails and I get the message that "Mail failed to quit". Permissions have been repaired.
Any ideas?

Hi Otto,
There are many threads on this topic. I have contacted Apple a few times as well and have tried just about everything mentioned on these forums, with little or no help.
The last thing that I tried has reduced Mail's Quit time to about 50 seconds (not enough to abort a shutdown) where previously it simply refused to quit unless Force Quit. The trick in question: Unsubscribe from Apple's RSS feed (which is automatically subscribed to).
In addition, prior to the above change at various troubleshooting steps over several weeks I had also deleted all Notes, ToDos, rebuilt Mailboxes etc. Essentially I have eliminated all additional functionality in Mail, just so that I can use it to send and receive email without a glitch.
Take a look at these threads for some pointers:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8174290#8174290
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7807482#7807482

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