Another Mail Hang Solved

This might be of help to somebody.
Problem:
My Mail hanged while fetching the first message from the .Mac IMAP server.
Solution:
It turned out that there was some "left overs" in the system level SIMBL bundles (/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins) among them MailHelper.bundle . They where all from iAlert which I had "unistalled" a long time ago. I probably didn't use the install/uninstall application provided for iAlert, and thus the bundles was still there.
Lesson learned:
Bevare of bundles especially SIMBL bundles. At least know what you are doing. That's the lesson I learned from this!

There's KTSUSS if you want, it's GTK-based too. Stands for 'keep the su simple, stupid'...
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ktsuss

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Mail has always been buggy under ALL versions of OS X, but this ongoing bug drives me crazy, mainly because there's NO logical reason for it.
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I have received an update from my friend who suffered from the Mail problem. In fact, the errors occurring AFTER the restore from Time Machine were due to an ISP's problem. So the restore really worked after all.
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I notice that you have marked your question as answered, but have not utilized the Helpful or Solved options.That may be intentional, but if you are not aware of how those work, here is some information.
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./imsimta version
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Edited by: leeky41 on Mar 9, 2010 10:58 PM
Edited by: leeky41 on Mar 9, 2010 11:06 PM
Edited by: leeky41 on Mar 9, 2010 11:07 PM

leeky41 wrote:
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