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NeoXY

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 20, 2007
14
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Hi all

My woe started after the 10.5.3 update, Mail would crash basically every step of the way and I can't get my...well mail. Despite efforts to fix it, no luck. So, I know I can reinstall the entire app from scratch with my Leopard disk. My question is, how do I completely and utterly remove any traces of Maill.app on my computer...err?

I don't care about preferences, e-mails, none of it. I just want the app gone.

Can anyone help?

Thanks alot
Neo
 

NeoXY

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 20, 2007
14
0
Used Appzapper, and I still have all my old e-mails and account preferences intact

Anyone else can help? Aren't there physical files in folders I can delete to get rid of it completely?
 

NeXTLoop

macrumors member
Jul 22, 2003
84
1
Used Appzapper, and I still have all my old e-mails and account preferences intact

Anyone else can help? Aren't there physical files in folders I can delete to get rid of it completely?

Just got to Home > Library > Preferences and delete the file "com.apple.mail.plist".

Then go to Home > Library and delete the folder called "Mail". That should get rid of the last traces.
 

NeoXY

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 20, 2007
14
0
Yeah, don't do it. Mail is not the cause of your problems. Removing it will not cure your problems, but it may cause other problems down the line.

...alright, so what should I do instead?
 

papasmurph

macrumors newbie
Jun 14, 2010
2
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My preferred email client is Thunderbird which I use for all my accounts. I would just leave Mail alone and ignore it but every time I start my Mac it pops up wanting me to create an account... can anyone tell me:

a) a good reason not to uninstall Mail.
b) why Mail keeps annoying me on startup.
c) how long port 25 has been custom for SMTP :p
 

Wheelz

macrumors newbie
May 1, 2010
3
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Wanganui, New Zealand
My preferred email client is Thunderbird which I use for all my accounts. I would just leave Mail alone and ignore it but every time I start my Mac it pops up wanting me to create an account... can anyone tell me:

a) a good reason not to uninstall Mail.
b) why Mail keeps annoying me on startup.

I'm exactly the same. Have been a TBird user for years even before I switched to Mac but Mail keeps popping up and trying to download all the scrillions of emails on the server. Annoys the hell out of me. I tried dragging it to Trash but didn't work.

What downstream effects could there be for uninstalling it?
 

marauder4050

macrumors newbie
Feb 13, 2013
1
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Get rid of mail app popping up

The quickest as harmless way to get it of mail popping up is to compress it. Just right click and select compress. :)
 
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