Mail is no longer opening.

The mail application used to work. Since I attempted to sync my documents and contacts, it now won't work. It starts freezing and I am forced to endulge in the option "force quit". Can anyone tell me what to do?
Thanks.

that was really an unhelpful answer.
You’re missing the point. Entirely.
the problem was kind of clear...
Which problem? The one described in the text of the first post? The one described in the title? Or each of the problems that the other posters said was “the same”?
you actually posted on that one...
Which should make you wonder why could it be that knowing the answer to at least one of the many different problems we could be talking about here, I chose to spend more time writing what I wrote than I would have spent copying & pasting what I always suggest in each of those cases...
Obviously, you’ve never tried helping people in messy threads before. Glad to see that not having that experience nor caring for the usefulness that a particular thread could have for other users in the future (like the one you found and helped you solve your problem, for example) doesn’t prevent you from blaming others for being so “unhelpful”...

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