I am getting the "spinning colorwheel of death" every time I open mail

I open mail and get the color wheel. Mail will not respond. Ever. This has been going on for two weeks. Is there a way to rebuild mail? I am away from home and do not have my disks nearby. In the meantime, I can check my .mac mail on the web. any suggestions?

You haven’t mentioned whether you’ve tried to force quit Mail and open it again. One way to do this is Apple Menu > Force Quit, select Mail there (it should say “not responding”), then click Force Quit.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network, choose Network Port Configurations from the Show popup menu, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list. Leave checked (enabled) only the port configuration needed to connect to Internet and Built-in Ethernet (in that order if not the same), uncheck (disable) the rest of network port configurations, and see whether that helps — if it doesn’t, turn ON again the ones you want enabled.
Finally, try launching Mail under the following conditions (you may need to force quit it first if it’s running) and post back with your observations:
1. Holding the Shift key down until the main window appears. This tells Mail to not select any mailboxes or load any messages upon start up.
2. With no Internet connection.

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