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After a few hours of using my computer Mail.app will try to open. I haven't clicked on it or done anything to start it as far as I can tell. This became so annoying I removed Mail.app and it still tries to run but now finder asks where Mail.app is located.
How can I make this stop?
Thanks,
srmatto

I, too, can report that, in the past few weeks, following the upgrade to Leopard 10.5.7, I have been observing that, when I wake up my computer(s) from sleep, this action somehow causes Mail to automatically load and begin to download email, even though I did not do anything to trigger Mail to load. This bizarre, undesired behavior is occurring on all three of my home-networked Macs, listed in my profile.
At first, I thought it might be some aberrant AppleScript that I had installed, but not all of the Macs have those AppleScripts installed, so that ruled that theory out. Then I thought maybe it's a virus (or virus software), but VirusBarrier detected nothing amiss where it is installed, and that anti-virus cannot be causing the problem, since it is not (yet) installed on all three of the computer/volumes I am reporting. The only common element between all three computers is that they are running Mac OS X 10.5.7. The fact that others are noticing this behavior on their computers, too, would imply that the issue is not confined to my small network, nor to any particular configuration on my computers. Thus, I am not going to waste any time trying to trouble-shoot this one, nor should you, I suggest.
Perhaps there is a bug in the latest Leopard update? I leave such issues to Apple developers to isolate and cure.
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