Corrupt message in Mail in-box kills app

[Steve St-Laurent]

My Mail in-box is about 90 Mb in size. Today I received a message that 
appears to have corrupted the mailbox. Now I can't even open the in-box 
window without crashing. I know the offending file and would love to 
delete it. [Curses again on HTML/rich-text email! Who cares what color 
you want your sig in?]

Is there anything I can do to fix the mailbox. I tried opening it in 
BBEdit Lite but it grabs only a part of the file. Would the full 
version do an better?

Dear entomologist Cricket, is there any way to rebuild the In box? 
Seems not to be the case but would be thrilled to be wrong. All advice 
welcome. Private replies hopeless, of course, because the In-box window 
crashes Mail and sometimes locks up the whole computer - yes, even in 
OSX 10.2.6. But files from this list are filed elsewhere. TIA

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Steve St-Laurent  |  <st-laur at holecomm.ca>  |  <http://www.holecomm.ca>
Hole-in-the-Wall Communications, Vancouver, BC, Canada  |  604 251 0700