Unsent messages

Hi,
My e-mail system is on the webmail server. I have 8 unsent messages and the bottom of the Inbox always displays a message that the e-mails are being sent (1 of 8, 2 of 8, etc.), but they never get sent. I also appear to not be able to send e-mails, although incoming e-mails are normal. I recently rebooted the entire iPhone when I had the white apple logo that would not go away. I had to delete the phone of all data and then restore it, after which the e-mail problem appeared to be solved. But it is now acting up again. Any ideas? Thanks.

I have the exact same issue.
When I enter Mail, it starts trying to send messages. Then it delays for couple minutes and finally just changes the status to "X unsent messages". Every time.
No window warning, nothing. Only thing I suspect is that it was mail generated by some third app. When I compose within mail, it sends just fine (except it won't forward attachment, but this is another issue).
Also, I can't see the messages it is trying to send anywhere to be able to edit or even delete them.
As advised, I've tried 3G, wifi, different SMTP configurations and reboot. Nothing worked a bit.
I've got gmail configured, though disabled, along with exchange, the one I use.
*update 01*
But I just now I've got this topic: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10342137#10342137 and theycallmetombo 's solution helped me a bit.
He said basically to turn on airplane, turn off wifi, create a new message and send it. It will go to the now visible outbox! Simple trick really, I should have thought about it.
With that trick I can see the unsent messages were really third party generated messages. One of them by "Meet Me Here" for instance, and they all had attachments! Maybe it's not a different issue, as I've mentioned before.
I still can't send them, tho, but I hope this also helps you a bit.
*update 02*
Well, it was an issue with multiple accounts after all. Just need to have them configured properly... One of them was working with the SMTP, and when I used the mail app it would send through that. The other one, which seemed to be the default for other apps, and despite of being well configured, was not working. It needed some tweaking, and now both are working. I won't get into details as this is already covered many places and my specific configuration won't help anyone.
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