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For whatever reason a malformed email gets stuck inside of mail and tries to send it, fails, recovers. Then for whatever reason repeats this OVER AND OVER again in a loop. The only way to break the cycle is remove the recovered messages folder and blow away the mbox cache. 

That reminds me of a time when I wrote a bad UNIX terminal command to unzip a folder. I messed up a command line flag and it executed recursively. In the end, a several kb file recursively expanded until it was several GB and then stopped because it caused a stack overflow biggrin.gif.
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I see this a few times a week at my shop too.
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