I have never tried that before. But, yes it crashes for me too.
Crash report includes:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Unexpected number of persistent stores (0), expected 1'
Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The file “Accounts.400.db.timemachine” couldn’t be opened." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/var/folders/y7/fw40md652kng9bbczythwfc40000gn/T/com.apple.mail/Accounts.400.db.timemachine, NSSQLiteErrorDomain=14}
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException