Trash is blocked by large Sent message

As a customer of Earthlink, I use Mac Mail for e-mail. I have over 300 messages in my Sent box and would like to get rid of most of them, but that action seems to be blocked by one large file I sent recently that does not allow me to trash it and keeps all messages sent before it from being trashed. Earthlink tells me this is an Apple issue. Can anyone suggest what to do?

JOC1, welcome to Apple Discussions.
I assume the large file was an attachment to the email? Is the file locked?
Until a solution can be found, drag the message from the Sent Folder to the Junk Folder (or some other folder). Then see if you can erase the other sent messages.
 Cheers, Tom
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