Frozen and Blank Mac Mail

Today my Mail has suddenly Frozen. There are quite a few topics on this and i have tried all the suggestions so far, Permissions, moving Mail from libery etc but as yet nothing has worked. When i start mail from the dock it, after a while, opens but it is empty and frozen solid. I can view my mail on .mac but nothing works on my computer. Unfortunatly some of my accounts are POP and i did not have the keep message on the server checked. I can see i have some messages to read but there is no way to get to them. The only way to close mail is to force quit.
Any help would be gratfully received.

Please, make it clear what it really is that you’ve tried. The following is what I’ve suggested a zillion times and doesn’t appear to be what you’ve already tried.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network, choose Network Port Configurations from the Show popup menu, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list. Try also turning OFF all the network port configurations except the one needed to connect to Internet and see whether that makes a difference — if it doesn’t, turn ON again the ones you want enabled.
Finally, try launching Mail under the following conditions (you may need to force quit it first if it’s running) and post back with your observations:
1. Holding the Shift key down until the main window appears. This tells Mail to not select any mailboxes or load any messages upon start up.
2. With no Internet connection.

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