Get Mail - missing little spinning grey circle

hi,
a friend's computer's little spinning grey cirle in MAIL is all of a sudden missing. I told him he could just use the window that shows what the program is doing (forgot name)... but, he wants his little spinning grey wheel back.
I don't know what happened to it. You know the one - when you hit Get Mail... it spins to show it is working. I'm not talking about the spinning color beach ball one.
Anyone know where this little grey spinning cirle would be?
thanks in advance!

So what specific model is this iMac? Is it a G5? Or is it an Intel iMac?
If it is a G5 you have posted in the wrong forum, this is the Intel forum. A G5 is not an Intel Mac, it has the IBM PowerPC CPU.
If this is an Intel, which Intel model is it? Did it come with Mac OS X Tiger installed on it? If it did not come with Tiger, if it came with Leopard, you cannot put Tiger on it.
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