You cannot use the application "Mail" with this version of Mac OS X

I get the above message when clicking on "Mail" on my backup drive. Could that be because I did not specifically upgrade my backup drive from Tiger to Leopard?
Hope this is an easy one to answer. Thanks

yes, most probably that is an old version of Mail - i.e. Tiger - and is not compatible with Leopard. You would need to replace it with the newer Leopard version of Mail
hope this helps

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