Mac osx mail

[madrox910]

If one was to accidentally uninstalled the mail application for their mac....would there be a way to get it back without having to reinstall the os?


yeah I kinda messed up. either my mac didnt come with "mail" or i uninstalled it the second i opened my computer.
I assume the latter

Im new to mac and help would be appreciated.

 

[italiano40]

ok pop in the Disc one of the Mac OSX and an installer should come up with folders look in each of the folders it should be in one of them

 

[madrox910]

Thank you for your help "italiano40" I was able to find the my install disk and located the files. If im not mistaken It appears that I have to achieve and reinstall my os. This is apparently because I opted to easy install my os when I first got my comp. weird I think... I hope this doesnt come back to bit me. Thank you again for your help.

 

[TheReef]

No Stop!

You don't need to reinstall your OS…find the optional installers package on your install CD and then select something like Install Mac OS X Applications (whichever one contains mail) to just reinstall those applications.

EDIT: See attachment, you can choose to just select mail.

 

[madrox910]

Hey thank you "TheReef" I was just just about to achieve and reinstall...when something told me to check the forums again.
I hope this doesnt sound stupid but I followed your advice and checked out the attachment.
I got to the point when Im to select the boxes. But when I try to check the boxes of the apps I want to install I cannot. The boxes are all grey and all say skip. For whatever reason I cannot check any of the boxes. ad depicted in the attachment. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[TheReef]

Hmmm, I don't know what the problem could be.
Are you sure the boxes are grayed out? Mine has skip, but I can still click the boxes which turns them to "upgrade" (or in your case "install" for Mail I would assume).

 

[madrox910]

Unfortunately yes. I notice in the picture how it says skip as well. But i cannot for the life of me check the boxes. I click click click away but it never changes. I dont get it. I do very much appreciate you helping me though. But I dont know where to go from here. I cannot check the boxes. I dont know if this helps but In the step by step install process it skips the choose destination step. I thought that was kinda weird.

 

[swiftaw]

Are you sure you actually deleted mail.app and didn't just remove it from the dock?

Check your Applications folder to see if it is there.

 

[madrox910]

Hi "swiftaw" thank you for you input as well. But unfortunately I checked my apps folder and I couldnt find any trace of the mail application. I even used the spotlight and nothing shows up for mail. :/