Help! with mac mail 4 -> 5.1

[sp4rky]

hi - new member here - HOPING i can get some resolution on this. it's a bit of along story but I had a disk go down resulting in needing to install a whole new system (10.6) on my imac 8,1 (dual core 2.8ghz 2008 model) - after trying a few mildly misguided things trying to get my old e-mail files and accounts imported into the newly installed version of mac mail - i mistakenly overwrote my new mail program with an old one (4.x). NOW - no matter what i do - I cannot install a newer mac mail ...maybe because i was playing around with the mail program locations and versions neither software update not the 10.6.8 combo updater would change anything ... I'd LIKE to avoid having to do a clean install from my snow leopard boot DVD ... but maybe someone here knows a trick i can use (like removing a plist or some invisible file somewhere?) - obviously the system has different ideas about what i want than i do.

another thing that may have caused this - while trying to resolve the mail thing yesterday - i thought i would try downloading thunderbird (in case i liked it - which i didn't) but whilst there I also haplessly made it the default mail client - could THIS be causing the installer/updaters to avoid touching the mail programme?

any help offered would certainly be appreciated! thanks

edit: alternately - if anyone has mac mail 5.x that's compatible with 10.6.8 they could send me - that might be a solution too!

 

[federi68]

Hi,

if it was me i'd take in consideration Spark - as a mail client.

Alternatively you can try CleanMyMacX that should find e delete all the garbages, including - maybe - the hidden file you mentioned.

 

[Fishrrman]

If you "erased and replaced" the newer (proper) Mail.app with an older version, the only easy way to "put things right" is to probably re-install the OS.

If one has "Pacifist", it -might- be possible to go into it and "extract" the Mail.app from the OS installer, but that's a little work and no guarantee you'll be successful.

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