Uninstall Mail.App

[NeoXY]

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

[cycocelica]

Well I know you can just drag Mail.app to the trash and delete it.

You could also use AppZapper which will find everything related to Mail.app and delete it too.

[NeoXY]

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]

Originally Posted by NeoXY

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.

[MisterMe]

Originally Posted by NeoXY

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Can anyone help?

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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.

[NeoXY]

Originally Posted by MisterMe

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?

[dirt farmer]

Originally Posted by MisterMe

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.

I agree! Post your specific problems here, or, better, on the Apple forums for Mail. Someone like Ernie Stamper will probably have a quick solution for you

[NeoXY]

Originally Posted by dirt farmer

I agree! Post your specific problems here, or, better, on the Apple forums for Mail. Someone like Ernie Stamper will probably have a quick solution for you

Thanks, I'll try the Apple support forum.

[HagothInc]

Hello Everyone

Have a look here. This does it. For some reason all my accounts were set to SSL and I also needed to make sure the outgoing SMTP was set custom to port 25. Maybe it was overkill but I can email :-)

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2998

Robert MacFarlane
Hagoth Inc.
http://www.hagoth.com

[papasmurph]

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

[MisterMe]

Originally Posted by papasmurph

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c) how long port 25 has been custom for SMTP

Port 25 is not a custom port. Port 25 is the standard port for SMTP.

[Wheelz]

Originally Posted by papasmurph

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]

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

[josvenes]

another option
delete the accounts in mail.app