Grayed out Mail - can't launch!

I created a new user account to share my machine with a friend. The process went swimmingly until we tried to open Mail. A pane appeared requesting: Full Name-Email address-Incoming Mail Server-Account Type (POP)-User Name-Password-Outgoing Mail Server.
Having successfully created a Gmail Account for my friend, we entered all the information required in the above pane.
For our trouble, we got the interminable dreaded spinning beach-ball.
Hoping to go around this roadblock, we went to Mail menu > Preferences and discovered Preferences was grayed out. We were defeated, couldn't figure out how to launch Mail!
Need some heavy duty help.

Got it! Went to View menu and chose "SHOW Deleted Messages", and it went away.
???

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