Mail lock out

Having used Mail without problems for a year or so, this morning I was trying to send a message and add an attachment (a Word .rtf document) and the program quit. I reopened Mail, tried again, the same thing happened. Now I can't get into Mail at all and when I try all I get is the option to create a new account. I've retstarted several times but that hasn't helped.
This means I can't access the hundreds of e-mails I have stored in folders. If anyone can advise what, if anything, I can do reactivate my account and to retrieve my messages, I'll be eternally grateful.
Thank you.

Hi pushka.
What seems to have happened is that, for some reason, Mail crashed while composing the message, and the preferences file became damaged as a result. Try this:
1. Make sure Mail is not running.
2. Make a backup copy of the HOME/Library/Mail folder, just in case something goes wrong. You can do this in the Finder by dragging the folder to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down, for example. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. In the Finder, go to HOME/Library/Preferences/. Locate the file com.apple.mail.plist and move it to the Desktop (to be deleted after fixing the problem).
You'll have to set up your accounts from scratch all over again. If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don't. Just enter the account information and Mail will automagically rediscover the data in HOME/Library/Mail/ when done.
You'll also have to re-configure most of your settings in Mail > Preferences. The first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable "Display remote images in HTML messages" if it's enabled.
After solving the problem of not being able to launch Mail, we may need to deal with the message that caused the crash.

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