I have had the SAME exact problem. It started yesterday for me.

 

Not meaning to hijack the thread, but what does *228 do?

 

I am having the exact same problem, how do you do a "true delete" of the account?

 

I wish I'd seen this thread before I did the factory reset to correct this issue. Oh well. Phone seems a bit snappier now anyway.

 

Yeah I wound up doing a Factory Reset. I thought it was something I did though considering it was after I did a few root related things. Glad to know it wasn't something I did

After googling, this is the fix I found on the motorola owners forums for the droid...

"Click on Settings/Applications/Manage Applications/Filter (done by hitting menu bar)/Select Running Applications/Email/Clear Data."

I can't verify if this fixed the problem or not as I did a Factory Reset.

 

Further searching revealed the solution that worked for me

Go to Home>Settings>Applications>Manage Applications
Click the Menu button and select "Filter"
Select "Running"
Scroll down to the "Email" application. Select "Clear Data"
(This is effectively the same thing as deleting the account and starting over,
however when I tried to delete/recreate the account using the UI, it didn't work.
After deleting the information through the Application Manager, it appears that my
email is working now.)
Here's the full thread:

Issue 4700 - android - Email app "force closes" on Droid (2.0) - Project Hosting on Google Code

 

Ooops I didn't see that, I was desperately searching to find a solution so I must have missed that.

 

Thanks for this. It fixed my problem.

 

Same issue here and the clear data worked for me also. I have had the Moto DROID since the Monday after launch without issue until this morning. Thank you for the help.

By the way, I posted to the issues forum as this is an issue that needs to be resolved. I had another user here in the company that had the same problem and I did a factory reset on his HTC Droid Eris to get it working again. At least I know what to do for a temporary fix now...

 

Thanks for the info... I added it to the FAQ in my signature.

 

This just happened to me, and I've had the phone (Droid) since day 0. Clearing the data indeed worked for me also.

I was worried about the 2.0 to 2.0.1 OTA upgrade and that was flawless, then I am doing nothing weird and it does happen! All's well that ends well, I guess.

 

This issue had become more and more frequent for me, until yesterday it happened 3 times in one day. I have had it with this issue!

So I am using Touchdown free trial, to see if it replicates using this software or not. If no FC's during the free trial, I'll be buying Touchdown.