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So I decided to u/g my MacBook Pro to Leopard 10.5.6 today and followed all the usual precautions. Everything seemed to have gone swimmingly until I fired up Mail. A message appears that mailboxes and such have to be converted (or something to that effect) and that it might take a few minutes.
In little time at all, Mail indicated the initial setup was a success, but I have no messages in the Message Viewer or any mailbox. I use IMAP for all of my email addresses (one at MobileMe, several at Gmail).
Tried to Send a message and no joy.
Clicking on the Get Mail icon does nothing.
Mail will not Quit.
I know I'm late to the 10.5 party, but I wan't expecting an issue with Mail.
Where to start?

Bruce,
Welcome to the Discussions.
If you mean that you upgraded from TIger to Leopard (and thus t 10.5.6), then consider the following:
The problem you are having following the upgrade to Leopard from Tiger (10.4.11?), has been covered by the support document at the link below:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2537
If you also find any files named to include MessageSorting (which would mean you once have upgraded from a version of OSX earlier than 10.4), remove those, also, but never restore those.
To find the correct location for the Mail folder, open a Finder window, click on the icon of a house in the Sidebar (this is known often as "Home"), click on Library in that Home user directory, and then to open the Mail folder found there.
If you mean you updated from an earlier version of Leopard to 10.5.6, then another set of support documents will apply.
Ernie

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