Mail.app crashing error loop.

I'm encountering an error loop in mail.app that I can't get out of. I get this error message over and over again until the program crashes.

I was at a meeting today in a building without internet access. While there I composed several emails and made one todo. Now the error message just repeats as I press OK until mail.app crashes. Upon relaunch, again.

There is an INBOX.Apple Mail To Do folder and each time I press OK it adds another todo. I've tried deleting them all, but they just keep reproducing. The emails I wrote while offline have been sent successfully.

I am running 10.5 on a SR MBP which is stock other than I upped it to 4G ram last week--with no noticeably related issues.

How do I get out of this? Thanks.

 

I've found a few other places that have identified the same bug. It seems to be an error in the way mail.app 3.0 handles Todos and Notes for an IMAP account while offline.

There were suggested remedies (seemingly temporary in nature, not bug fixes) of varying degrees of complexity.

Here's one of the easiest and it worked for me at this point:

For those of you without any Unix experience, this is still quite easy:

1. open terminal.
2. change directories using the command "cd", i.e. "cd Library" or "cd ~/Library/Mail" and change directories until you are in the ".OfflineCache" directory.
3. delete all the files in the .OfflineCache folder by typing "rm *".

That should do it.

For me, I guess I won't be using the Todos or Notes in mail.app until I see a bug fix on this.