I did not notice this problem with PowerMail until I went to England last February and had to use a dial-up connection. I would start to send some messages and they would not go (normally from my mac.com address, but dialing into Earthlink). I needed to quit PowerMail, restart with the option-Apple key and purge the outgoing mail queue. Then find the drafts and send one, by one.
Since I came home and went back to my broadband connection, the problem did not occur. Tonight it is back with a vengeance. One of my accounts has a mail server that is down, but everything else is impacted as well. The one email waiting to go from the impacted account stops any another email from going unless I quit PowerMail and purge the queue on restart. Once that email is sent, I cannot send another without quitting PowerMail and restarting with the option-Apple key and selecting purge outgoing mail. OS 9.1 PowerMail 4.2b5 (today's release had other problems for me) Wall Street G3 Powerbook Midi Cox San Diego California Earthlink Broadband Customer/using primarily a mac.com account but some others that are not Earthlink
