Have you tried to repair permissions?
ill sound very stupid but how do you do that I usually dont mess with my mac
Maybe Mail has been doing a little time travel?
Have you tried to repair permissions?
I agree
and to celticpride, he said he was a comp noob. he wont find disk utility in Applications.
try this
Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility>Select Macintosh HD>Repair Permissions
What version of OS X and Mail are you using?
last version of leopard and prob last version of mail i dunno i cant open it