Urgent... Mail App not working

[jackmack]

Out of all the programs that could fail, I really wish this one didn't, lol.

Long story short...

My computer (mac book pro 17" santa rosa) freaked out and I had to manually power it off.

When I powered it back on, all seemed well, but when I launched my mail app, it said something about a corrupted database or preference file or something, and it had to do a recovery thing.

When it finished, nothing quite works the same.

First off... I can't quit the mail app when it is open... not by cmd+q, or anything. I have to forcequit it.

Second... it does not grab mail anymore... it just keeps showing me the same mail I've already gotten yesterday.


I already tried removing the apple.mail.plist file, but when i re-set up my account, it had the same problems.

Any help would be greatl appreciated.

 

[svenr]

Make a copy of the [your user account]/Library/Mail folder in a different place. Delete the old one.

Set up Mail completely fresh, i.e. delete prefs files and re-enter your account info.

If you had IMAP accounts, the mail will be on the server and just gets downloaded again. If you had POP accounts, go to File->Import Mailboxes, choose Mail for Mac OS X and re-import from the backup copy you made above.

If the backup copy is not readable for some reason, try Emailchemy:
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/index.html

 

[jackmack]

Make a copy of the [your user account]/Library/Mail folder in a different place. Delete the old one.

Set up Mail completely fresh, i.e. delete prefs files and re-enter your account info.

If you had IMAP accounts, the mail will be on the server and just gets downloaded again. If you had POP accounts, go to File->Import Mailboxes, choose Mail for Mac OS X and re-import from the backup copy you made above.

If the backup copy is not readable for some reason, try Emailchemy:
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/index.html

Bless you good sir!

 

[SaSaSushi]

If you have Time Machine you can also do this to recover all your mail.