Mail keeps freezing on opening so i cant open any mail.

Question

I have mail set up on my comp and now everytime i open the mail either from the dock on from the harddrive when on my desktop the mail opens up but then freezes and i get a whirlyball. i cannot delete my mail account to reset it as it wont let me even get that far. this just happens on my desktop and not on the other desktops as i have managed to set my emails up from there but these are used by other people in the household. Has anyone got any suggestions? Thanks.

Answer 1

Since this method of getting info about the Mail app does not provide as much detail as would using About Mail if you could open the app, let's first create a New User Account, and as that New User launch Mail and try setting up one email account -- since you are using POP set to leave messages on the server for later download in your original user account. See the following if not familiar with adding a new user account (which I am sure you are):
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8235.html
The reason for doing this is to test the Mail app itself and the particular settings in the normal user account, and not to permanently switch to a new user account. Tell me if the behavior continues in that New User Account with Mail crashing?
Ernie