Mail.app opens by itself while I am using Thunderbird

What happens to ththe Mavericks system if I uninstall the Mail.app?

Hi, Eric Thanks for quick response. I prefer Thunderbird. Since I fooled around with the mail.app yesterday, I have been having firefox problems, millions of documents downloaded in seconds. There is some kind of tie to the preview.app also. I may get back to you with more questions. This whole thing is driving me nuts. I'm trying to write a novel here, I don't want to join the cloud or sync or do anything but finish my book. (Venting is good for me, apologies to you for taking up time.) I have an older laptop with Snow Leopard, never had this kind of trouble. Progress for Apple is not progress for me!

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I have this problem too with my Macbook Air. Mail opens automatically every time my laptop sleeps. I actually just asked about this in my own thread. However, it is not causing my apps to freeze.

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I have my security settings setup so that everytime my iMac goes into screen saver mode it asks for login password. Recently I have noticed that if I leave the computer unattended for a long period of time (a few hours) and come back, the mail app opens up. If I just go away for a few minutes and come back the problem does not occur.
Since I am not using the mail app and have not set it up, the setup account window is the one to come up.
I have checked the Login Items under Accounts in System Preferences and it's not there. I have also right clicked the icon in the dock and checked if it was set to start up automatically - it isn't.
I have read online this maybe has something to do with email alerts from iCal but I have not set up iCal to send email, nor do I know where I can disable that type of feature. This is happening even when iCal is closed and I have no events for that day. I've looked around in the prefrences of iCal and disabled any option that has something to do with email but it still happens.
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So I've tried both of the tips you gave my guys, but non of them works
But I've found out something. When I switch to different space (in spaces), than drop some file and then try to switch back to my mail space, there are 2 possibilities how to do it. First - I just move mouse to the space to where I want to switch, wait for a second and it switch automatically or I can move mouse to the space where I want to switch and than press spacebar to make it faster.
The strange thing with opening app from dock happens just when I press the spacebar.
And question for your other answer - yes, it happens just with apps in my dock.
It is so uncomfortable...
EDIT: few days ago I've run OnyX (which was probably mistake) and this happens probably since than. I used it because Snow Leopard got little bit slower so I wanted to clean it... It might be because of that.
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TS1702 On my iPad 2 the mail app opens and the page icons are there but no mail. I can access my mail in other ways so I know mail is being received.

On my iPad2 the mail app opens and the page icons are there but no messages are shown. I know mail is being sent as I can access it in other ways plus the envelope icon on my homepage continues to show the number of messages received.
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Cheers
A

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Will any mail apps open to the inbox by default?

I have been using computers for decades...and have had my iPhone for a few years now. It was only a few days ago that I got my first iPad and was surprised by the "feature" that all of the mail apps seem offer...
I am talking about opening the app to the last email you were looking at. I tried a few different apps and they all seem to offer the same thing.
Why does it seem to be an iPad thing to make you go to your inbox instead of having it be the first thing you see?
Can anyone direct me to an app for the iPad that when I open it, I will see my inbox?
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This answer does not help me at all.
It does not address my initial question...not even a little bit.
Me mentioning someone looking over my shoulder was just an example.
The point is, I want an app that opens by default directly to the inbox.
If you have anything useful to contribute, please do.
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Had the 3G, was working fine.
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Mail.app opens behind frontmost window.

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Glad it helped. I went that way but somehow I just like Mailappetizer, so am now putting up with the background issue. I think I saw on their website that they are attempting to fix it.

When trying to send photo or web link my email ends up in gmail outbox and I have to go into mail app open outbox and email and press send again and it will send without any trouble

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It just show 4 options....Remove from dock, Open at login, Show in Finder and Open...none of the previous are cheked.....
I had the same problem before installing Leopard.....The installation process was really smooth....But I though that with Leopard the prblem could be solved but I was not. Now Mail opens more frequently.
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