Mail program may be corrupt

I believe my mail program is corrupt. How do I load a new one after I delete the old?

Here is my setup
Mail preferences/Account information
Account type: POP
Description: pop
Email address: (my email address)
Full name: (my full name)
Incoming mail server: pop.earthlink.net
User name: (my email address)
Password: (my password)
Outgoing mail server… smtpauth.earthlink.net
I keep getting an error message saying that it cannot send out mail in smtpauth,Earthlink.net
In the advance tab:
port is 110 ssl not checked and password OK

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This all started because my battery is so weak at this point that if I unplug for more than a few minutes, the system just blinks off....which is exactly what happened while the Mail program was doing something important. When I rebooted, my mail program was completely corrupted.
Now it hangs while checking mail and registers up to 24 new e-mails, but shows none of them, or simply fetches the same e-mail over and over again in each folder. Then it freezes up while the progress whirlygig thing goes around and around...even if I take a mailbox off-line it seems to do this same thing.
I disabled some of the mailboxes and found that this erased the content of all my e-mails in each folder that was disabled.
Meanwhile, it will actually send mail perfectly well.
If I remember correctly, reinstalling my system software will not fix this problem, unless there's something I don't know about. (These days there are many of those things.) Is there a preferences folder I can trash or something I can do to fix my mail program, while hopefully saving my past e-mails (I can dream, can't I?)? Suggestions are most welcome.
Thanks so much!
Jennifer

Golden Shoes:
Thanks for the quick response.
I have a POP account. Several.
Also, I don't run the computer without the AC. It was being moved from a desk to a table when it shut down suddenly before I could reattach the cable.
Would the mail preferences be located in the user folder? I tried getting rid of them and still had the same problem. I'm worried about tossing something global out when I shouldn't.
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Sorted it now, it was a mail account that seemed to be corrupting the whole program, disabled every account and then turned them on 1 at a time, when I found the corrupt account, I just disabled it again and it's now working fine.
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Unless you changed your .Mac account from a .Mac type account to a POP type account, a .Mac type account is really an IMAP type account and behaves in the same way and as you know, you must create an AOL email account in Mail and with other email clients as an IMAP type account.
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I am having the same problem with mail since yesterday and have spent much of yesterday and today sorting through forums to find this thread.
I, too, found that creating a new user eliminated the mail program freeze. The freeze comes and goes, perhaps lasting 30 seconds with a rhythmic hard drive sound. Force quitting mail immediately stops the rhythmic drive sound, but the freeze means you may have to wait 30-120 seconds to even get the force quit command to be able to be entered.
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I have tried today to boot from my Tiger DVD while holding down C. It doesn't work. Also, if I just stick it in, it kicks it out. I checked the Apple help files for this. It recommended downloading superdriveFWUpdate since my PM G5 is an early model. Did this and when run it said I didn't need this. The only other advice that the site points to for problems booting from the DVD refers to 10.3.9 and before, and I'm running 10.4.9.
Do you have any other advice on how I am going to get my PM G5 to boot from the DVD to check the disk before going forward? Again, the folks at Apple Store Saddlecreek said the problem didn't appear to be disk related before, and was a bad user. unfortunately, the archive and install caused hours of work trying to set up syncing between my palm, .mac calendars on the G5, and iMac.
I started follwing the advice you'd given to Luc, to make a backup of ~/Library/Mail and the first time I did this I got a message "finder couldn't complete the operation because some data in "envelope index"couldn't be written" I took that doc and put it on the desktop, and tried again. This time I got the same message for "13052.emit"
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Should I trash all the files in my ~library/mail folder or just some?
There's a file called LSMMap2 and one below it called LSMMap2.corrupt, in fact.
I have two email accounts, one of which has 60,000 plus emails for a newsgroup that I like to be able to go back into to do searches on previously discussed questions, but I do now have them on the other user account I set up on the computer today.
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