Mail application will not load

Fairly often when I search for an email I get a message "Can't load Mail. There was a problem loading the application." This is not acceptable!

Gordon Hume wrote:
" This is not acceptable!
How about some details, guessing isn't very acceptable either.
Who is your email provider (if not Apple)
What version of OS X do you have
What troubleshooting steps have you taken so far (if any)
Just so you know, we are volunteers giving our time to try and help, not Apple employees.

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I refuse to pay for support for an issue caused by an upgrade. That is just ridiculous.

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I would take your OS X installation disc and insert it in the drive, then restart the Mac and hold down the C key until you see the spinning cursor on screen. When it finishes loading, select Disk Utility from the Installer menu and first Repair Disk, then Repair Permissions, then reboot from your HD, eject the OS X disc and try Mail again.
If that doesn't work, then the best thing in terms of time and effort would be to do an Archive and Install of OS X 10.5, with the Preserve Users and Network Settings option. This will install a new copy of 10.5, while preserving all of your current folders and applications, and moving all the old ones to a folder named Previous System. You can then use Software Update to bring it current to 10.5.3, run Repair Permissions when that's done, then Mail should work normally again. Once you've confirmed that and that all your other programs and files are intact and working, you can delete the Previous System folder.
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Lately I tried to solve a problem concerning Scandinavian letters. The thing is that Scandinavian letters in 'rich text' with Tiger Mail sometimes show up like Chinese signs or reversed questionmarks in Windows-recipients' mail.
Tom Gewecke explained it is due to two bugs in mailprogram in outdated MS Outlook.
I did what suggested. One of the suggesstions was to set Mail's default encoding to UTF-8. To do this I had to open Utilities/Terminal and type:
'defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset "UTF-8"'
I also put in a dingbat character in every mail to WIN-recipients, which was another suggestion to force MS Outlok to identify and use UTF-8.
This may have solved the problem so far. I think so.
It may be a coincidence. But after a day or so my Mail app. have troubled me ever since.
The application will not answer. It will not show the mails in the mailboxes.
I can't read og send mails. I can't quit the application, but have to force-quit
The connection to the internet is OK. Window/Mail-doctor shows there is connection to the internet. But in the Window/Activity the view shows that the activity is blocked.
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Hi again David.
Thankyou for you support so far. Had to sleep and do stuff … problem transformed:
1. Quit Mail if it's running.
2. Move the entire Mail folder out of
~/Library/ -- be sure to not overwrite the
backup copy you did before.
3. Open Mail. If any of your POP accounts is
configured to remove messages from the server right
away, either tell Mail to go offline immediately
after opening it, or shut down your Internet
connection before opening Mail. Then, configure the
account to leave Mail on the server for some time, so
that we can later get rid of the newly created Mail
folder without losing anything.
Post back with your observations.
:: I have done the three steps.
:: Then I moved back all my original mailboxes to the Mail-folder just to find out that all the messages in them will not load in Mail app. when I open it. I have all my original named mailboxes visible in Mail, but the content of messages will not show.
:: Other features in Mail are now at work: it opens and closes, I receive, send etc.
:: In ~/User/Library/Mail/Mailboxes on the other hand I find all the earlier recorded messages as .emls-files. But they don't show in Mail app.
:: Then I startede to import my messages from a copy of the removed and back-moved Mail-folder now placed on my external HD. This is extremely slow. Mail app. crashes again and again. Maybe because I have a huge pile of messages (more than 30.000).
:: If I divide each of Message-folder in my Mailboxes in the Mail-folder into smaller portions of messages I can succeed in importing them, 5 by 5 or 10 by 10. This off course is very, very time-consuming.
:: Lately the Import-folder generated by import in Mail app. disappeared! Again and agian it does not show by import. So I can't use this feature at the moment. Why does it disappear?
:: So how can I make the messages — which are present in the in ~/User/Library/… — visible in Mail app. again?
:: How can I make a better record and archive-system of my messages, maybe year by year (without having to save each one of them as RTF-files)?
Thankyou,
riprap

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See possible fixes here.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19760703#19760703
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4311280?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19710911#19710911
Some have reported success simply by reinstalling the update.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1586
Or download and apply, or reapply, the 10.6.8 Combo update first, then apply the Security Update again.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
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from the menu bar.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
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