Mail crashing when trying to start the app.

Never had this problem until I updated the os to the latest security update a few days ago (May 26 or so). When starting up the Mail program I see the screen coming up and before having any time to do anything it just quits on me. Nothing on my system has changed. Any other people having the same problems? Any possibility to just re-install or repair the mail program without loosing any of the data?
...miakel

Did Mail start crashing immediately after installing the Security Update or a few days later? It could very well be that Mail is crashing while trying to load a message with bad HTML content.
1. Launch Mail holding the Shift key down until the main window appears. This should prevent Mail from trying to select any mailboxes or load any messages upon starting up.
If Mail doesn't crash now, then you know there is a troublesome message somewhere, and you'll have to find it and get rid of it:
2. Go to Mail > Preferences > Viewing and disable "Display remote images in HTML messages" if it's enabled -- having this setting enabled is a really bad idea for spam-related reasons anyway.
3. If the preview pane is visible in the main Mail window, drag the horizontal separator bar between the messages list pane and the message preview pane to the bottom of the window, or just double-click within the separator bar, so that the preview pane disappears and only the messages list is visible. This prevents Mail from trying to load a message when it is selected in the messages list pane.
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