Mail opens on its own in 10.6

Does anyone know why mail is opening all by itself on my 10.6.7 system? I do not use the mail program on my workstation and do not want to. I keep finding Mail open and prompting me to set up. Then it will not quit. I have to forcequit.
Anyone know what's going on?

Hopefully this will solve your problem (It did for me):
1. Open up iCal
2. Go to iCal > Preferences (on the top grey bar)
3. In preferences, go to "Advanced"
4. At the bottom of the window, there's an option entitled "Automatically Retrive Invitations from Mail". If that's checked, un-check it.
5. Close the preferences window to save the preferences.
Congratulations, you're done! Hope this helps!

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I have a Equium L40-10X laptop bought recently from Pc World. It's been working fine until recently my cd/dvd drive popped open on its own. I closed it and then about 10 minutes later it did it again. This happens every so often. After a bit of research I found out it could have been a spyware issue. Scanned, and removed all traces etc. Problem appeared to be gone, but alas, the drive once again popped open.
Recently the drive is not reading discs as well. It seems to work when it wants for any time between 10 seconds and an hour at a time. The things got a mind of its own....and when it's not working, the button to open the drive doesn??t seem to work. I have to use a paperclip to open the drive.
Either I have a haunted laptop or there's something wrong.
Has anyone had any experience of anything like this before or have any advice on what to do?
Thanks, Jon.

Hi mate
I didnt notice something like this before but I presume its a mechanical problem.
Dont think 3rd party software (program, spyware, virus, etc) could cause this issue.
Additionally you have said that the drive is not reading discs as well.
In such case I would recommend contacting the ASP in your country and to ask for the drive check and if necessary for an ODD drive replacement.
If the warranty is valid the replacement should be done for free.
Best regards

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First of all, I'd like to apologize for my english...
I have a problem since 2 weeks ago. Everytime I start my mac, a Terminal's window opens on its own, and the next sequence of commands starts to execute in themselves:
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[Proceso completado]
I've no idea of the cause of this problem, but i'm really scared about the possibility of being a virus, so I'd be very grateful if you give a hand with it.
Thank you very much

Hello MIke:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
No need to apologize. My English, at times, is not very good and it is my native tongue!
First, there are NO viruses that affect a Mac running OS X - none.
Open system preferences>accounts>log in items. See if "terminal" appears there (probably not).
I suspect this article will help yoiu solve the problem:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2304
Barry

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