Mail no relaunching after force quit - Yosemite

Had to Force Quit mail in Yosemite because Print PDF to mail crashed the app.  Now cannot relaunch Mail.  Just sits in the menu bar and cannot click on it.
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Try the following;
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger, and 4.1 for Leopard) and/or TechTool Pro (4.6.1 for Leopard) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
If DU cannot fix the sibling link error (it may not) and you don't have Disk Warrior then you may attempt this suggestion: Fix Invalid Sibling Link.
If these all fail then you will have to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X from scratch. You may be able to recover your personal files if your computer has a Firewire port, and you have access to another Mac with a Firewire port. You can then use Target Disk Mode to try and access the drive on your computer and copy off your personal files.

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