Lion Mail hangs, cannot be started after first MacBook shut down...

After installing Lion, Mail worked fine... Once, I shut down the computer, I have not been able to restart Mail in multiple attempts. Time and again, Mail is not responding and hangs consistently (see report below)... A Mail patch by Apple Computer is urgently needed!

By the way, the first step that I refer to should not be double click but right click:
1. Right click the Finder Folder in the Dock (and a popup menu will appear)
Hope this works for you as it did for me!
Recommended not by me but successfully used by me, here are the steps again...
1. Right click on Finder icon in the Dock
2. Choose "Go to Folder" in the popup menu
3. Type in ~Library
4. Open the Mail folder(s) until you find the V2 folder
5. As opposed to what was recommended, I deleted all files and folders inside the V2 folder
(After all, gmail and iMobile have my mail history and details on file anyway)
6. Restarted MacBook to be sure
7. Started Mail and added my iMobile and gmail accounts... From there the normal world presented itself!
Please, note below a more simpler solution suggested elsehwere (that I did not test myself)...
1. Open Applications in a Finder window and scroll to Mail
2. Right click on Mail then go to "Get Info" in the popup window
3. Unlock the lock at the bottom of the window by clicking on it (it will ask you for your password)
4. Go to "Access" and change it from "custom" to "read and write"
5. Restart Mail and it should work

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