Facebook's "backdoor" bug into Mail program?

Yesterday, I was using Facebook's Photos upload feature to upload some pics for my profile's album and the feature generated an actual file directory to my computer desktop and hard drive. I uploaded some pics and all went fine. Then, the Mail program was not able to retrieve any new email and I keep getting messages that other mail client is in use, blocking my access to retrieve emails. I thought this is strange because I have no other mail client opened except Mail. This occurred right after I used Facebook's Photos Upload Feature.
So I'm thinking... could there be a backdoor/exploit bug generated from Facebook's ability to access to a computer's file directory, specifically targeting Mail and create the impression that other mail client is in use while Mail is not able to retrieve emails?
I just don't know anything more deep but I'm just concerned. Anyone have this experience?

I haven't had the specific problem you've had, but I have recently begun responding to requests to join Facebook and at the same time I've begun to have, after years of no problems, weird problems with Mail. Something going on? Good question....

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BBM,
Welcome to the Discussions.
Do you have an email account provided by your ISP?
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In Mail Preferences/Accounts/Advanced, what are your
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Ernie
Hi Ernie, and sorry for the slow reply, been away for a few days. My ISP email account doesn't exhibit any of this, and the advanced settings for .mac are to keep all messages and attachments. Going by other posts on similar topics, it looks like a major bug in Mail/.mac syncing. Have you heard of any progress in solving it at Mac's end yet? Regards, BBM

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Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway.
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