Mail is crashing randomly ever since yesterday.... HELP PLEASE

Question

Hello All-
Ever Since yesterday my Mail application has been randomly crashing on my computer. I have never really had this problem before and no other programs seem to be effected. I have tried to keep track of when it happens today, and there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

You’re welcome.
Yes, it makes sense. It means you don’t have any Mail plug-ins (you don’t even have the folders where such plug-ins would be installed), and that’s fine. So the problem must be something else.
BTW, does Mail really crash (i.e. quit unexpectedly) or does it freeze (i.e. become unresponsive)?
Do you have any rules or smart mailboxes that refer to Address Book smart groups? That’s another thing that may cause Mail 2.x to crash under the circumstances you described — and the only workaround I know for that is to not make use of AB smart groups in rules or smart mailboxes...
When an application crashes (i.e. quits unexpectedly), the system writes information about the state of the application at the moment of the crash to a log file. That information is called a crash report and makes troubleshooting easier. If the use of AB smart groups in rules and/or smart mailboxes isn’t the problem either, proceed as follows in order to find and post the relevant part of the crash report here:
1. Open ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Mail.crash.log. The whole crash log appears in a Console window (you can also open that file with any text editor). It may contain many crash reports. We only want the latest, which is located at the bottom of the file.
2. Look for a line that begins with “Date/Time:” as close to the bottom as possible, and another that says “Thread N Crashed:”, where N is a number. Select everything from the “Date/Time:” line down to and including the lines immediately following “Thread N Crashed:” (up to the next blank line). Copy that text and paste it in your post. Do not post the whole crash log, and do not include anything beyond the lines immediately following “Thread N Crashed:” either, just the relevant part.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.