Mail quits by itself every now and then

Apple Mail seems to quit by itself every now and then without crashing. Sometimes even during composing or reading an email. It seems to be highly unstable and when it quits, it leaves no trace of logs in the crashreporter. This is very annoying and frustrating, as I need to re-compose any possible email that I might be working on. Has anyone experience this and can someone please help?
I have my mail link to a corporate email server as well as a corporate ldap. I have also installed a 3rd party stationery and have multiple smart mailboxes setup but these have never given me the same issues as I do when I was using Mail on Leopard. My mail version is 4.2 (1077) and using SL (10.6.2).
Can someone please let me know how to resolve this?

Try this - find the /Library/Preferences folder in your user/Home folder and then locate and this file and temporarily move it to the desktop:
com.apple.mail.plist
*Caution* - doing this may clear your account settings so be sure to note those first in the event you are required to reconfigure, etc.
If this fixes the issue, you can delete the original plist---if not and you want to short-cut making any needed settings as before, delete the fresh plist and move the original back to where it was.

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