Mail unable to import and upgrade mail and will not open.

I have had a not so smooth uprade to Mountain Lion. I did a clean install because the first time indicated I had a hard drive issue. I used time machine to restore documents etc. This worked fairly well However my wife's account has problems with Mail. When I launch mail it tries to import/upgrade the mail from the previous system My wife uses gmail. However after going through the process of importing the mail I get an error message that the Upgrade failed because of a corrupt index, and to restart mail and it will fix the file. Unfortunately this pattern just repeats and I am unable to actually get mail to open. Is there a way to bypass this process?

I solved my problem, well enough for me. I opened the hidden user library folder using the method of clicking on the finder and typing command-shift G then typing ~/Library which opens the user library.aI then trashed Mail from the library. When I restarted Mail it guided me through the steps of setting up the account. Yeah!

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For the last 10 days I have been unable to open the Mail account on my eMac (MacOS10.4.11). When I click on the icon in the Dock the only option I get is "Force quit" and the main Mail bar will not open any choice. Any ideas?

For the last 10 days I have been unable to open the Mail account on my eMac (MacOS10.4.11). When I click on the icon in the Dock the only option I get is "Force quit" and the main Mail bar will not open any choice. Any ideas?

You can setup Mail for iCloud on the eMac.
Do not delete the old account yet. sign up for an iCloud account if you haven't.
I understand .mac mail will still come through. Do not delete the old account yet.
You cannot use .mac or MobileMe as type of Account, you have to choose IMAP when setting up, otherwise Mail is hard coded to change imap.mail.me.com to mail.me.com & smtp.mail.me.com to smtp.me.com, no matter what you try to enter.
iCloud Mail setup, do not choose .mac or MobileMe as type, but choose IMAP...
On second step where it asks "Description", it has to be a unique name, but you can still use your email address.
IMAP (Incoming Mail Server) information:
• Server name: imap.mail.me.com
• SSL Required: Yes
• Port: 993
• Username: [email protected] (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
• Password: Your iCloud password
SMTP (outgoing mail server) information:
• Server name: smtp.mail.me.com
• SSL Required: Yes
• Port: 587
• SMTP Authentication Required: Yes
• Username: [email protected] (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
• Password: Your iCloud password

When I receive e-mails w/ attachments in PDF they show up as win.dat attachments and will not open w/ Acrobat

When I receive e-mails in Mail w/ PDF attachments they appear as win.dat attachments and will not open w/ Acobat Reader or Professional.

Search....
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=winmail.dat+mac

I have Maverick installed and my mail, Safari, Mac App Store, and iMessages apps all say that they quit unexpectedly and will not open. Any suggestions?

I have Maverick installed and my mail, Safari, Mac App Store, and iMessages apps all say that they quit unexpectedly and will not open. Any suggestions?
Process:
Mail [605]
Path:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Identifier:
com.apple.mail
Version:
7.2 (1874)
Build Info:
Mail-1874000000000000~1
Code Type:
X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [164]
Responsible:
Mail [605]
User ID:
501
Date/Time:
2014-05-01 22:11:44.754 -0500
OS Version:
Mac OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: 5D0F67F3-4D58-F054-66B6-24017FD68ADC
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
VM Regions Near 0:

I will check. Can the security update be installed if you can no longer open the Mac App Store app?
I was listening to the MacCast podcast and the host had a similar issue and did something similar to the link below. I am concerned that I may mess something up by doing this.
http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/Fix-Spod-How-To-Fix-A-Spinning-Pinwheel -Of-Death.htm

Mail App Will Not Open After 10.10.1 Upgrade

A few days ago I upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.1 and ever since my Mail app will not open. It will bounce and show the indicator dot, but no window ever appears.
Has anyone else encountered this?

Reinstall Yosemite:
Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. 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 main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
Also see:
Reinstall OS X Without Erasing the Drive
OS X Yosemite- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mavericks- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X
OS X Lion- Reinstall Mac OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

Mail Application will not open after 10.6.8 update

So, I'm currently trying to update my parent's computer and in the process of updating their Mail application it has become unusable. My computer at home (not my parents computer) ran into the same problem before I updated to Lion and deleting the preferences for Mail solved it. Plus, I have read previous posts about this similar problem and a typical troubleshooting solution was to delete the Mail preferences.
After all of my software updates (Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8) and deleting the preferences for Mail, I still receive the same error message when trying to open the application. "Mail can't be used on this version of mac OS X. Try opening the version of Mail located in the Applications foler on your computer." My applications folder has not been adjusted, edited or even touched from it's original state in the dock/home folder.
I contacted AppleCare support and they advised me to reformat my computer. I think that's a little... unneccesary?? It's just Mail that isn't working. The rest of the applications (e.g. Safari, Address Book, iPhoto, etc.) open just fine.
Anyway, do you have any advice or insight to my problem here?
Much appreciated! Thanks!

After a second call to AppleCare, they had advised me differently than before. Once they found out that my personal computer has Mac OS X Lion installed from the App Store, they suggested I simply upgrade my parents computer to Lion.
So, I used my download from the App Store and upgraded. It went smoothly, but Mail still will not open properly. And instead of the original error message, it comes up with this:
"Check with your developer to make sure Mail can work with your version of Mac OS X. You may need to reinstall the application. Check if there are any updates available for the application."
How can I re-install just Mail? A startup disk is not accessible for me right now. Can I download the latest version of Mail and install it from the Apple.com website?

Mail App will not open, OR quit.

My Mail app will not open, and now when I need to update my mac, it won't because it says the mail app "cancelled restart". Mail app will not open nor close. When I click on "Mail" at the top bar, the "quit" option is in light grey (not clickable). HELP Mail is still accessable on my phone. Is there a way to delte the app all together (with out having to take it in) and re download.

IME, it has always been a flaky app- Mac up to date or not. I've force quit many times. It's an immediate fix but it would be nice if the app worked consistently. Currently, it won't open (which seems new) or close. Of course I will try force quit (easy solution; always has been) but this seems ridiculous. Early 2011 MBP all up to date.

Mail application will not open

My mail application quit opening a few weeks ago. When I try to open it with the icon on the dock and in the finder the screen just blinks. Even my computer savvy wife cant figure it out. My next stop is the genius bar unless there are some geniuses here. I can still get mail via .mac log in but cannot send links or documents as the OS mail application will not open when I need to send them.
Any suggestions????

I would take your OS X installation disc and insert it in the drive, then restart the Mac and hold down the C key until you see the spinning cursor on screen. When it finishes loading, select Disk Utility from the Installer menu and first Repair Disk, then Repair Permissions, then reboot from your HD, eject the OS X disc and try Mail again.
If that doesn't work, then the best thing in terms of time and effort would be to do an Archive and Install of OS X 10.5, with the Preserve Users and Network Settings option. This will install a new copy of 10.5, while preserving all of your current folders and applications, and moving all the old ones to a folder named Previous System. You can then use Software Update to bring it current to 10.5.3, run Repair Permissions when that's done, then Mail should work normally again. Once you've confirmed that and that all your other programs and files are intact and working, you can delete the Previous System folder.
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Clicking on an e-mail address will NOT open Windows Live Mail which is already the default mail program which is already set as the default mail program

Clicking on an e-mail address will NOT open Windows Live Mail. Windows Live mail is already set as my default e-mail program.

Sorry you're having this problem. I think it was previously reported only by Windows XP users.
When you reinstall, were you making Firefox your default browser? Some users have reported that ''not'' making Firefox the default browser was an effective workaround.
However, you may have success with this approach, suggested by a user in another thread, which appears to more thoroughly update the Windows registry:
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# Edit->Preferences
# In the Categories column click 'General'
# Near the bottom of the page click the button marked 'Select Default PDF Handler'
# In the dialog, select 'Adobe Reader XI' (or Adobe Acrobat, as the case may be) and click 'Apply'
# A Windows Configuration screen will appear. Allow it to do its stuff (takes a few minutes), then restart your computer when prompted.
Does that resolve the issue for you?

HT4993 After updating to iOS 6.1.3 my mail apps will not open. Help!

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Close out of the mail app, double tap the home button and completely close out of it.
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All my icons on my dock are opening without any problem, but my mail icon will not open.

Launch Launchpad. Click Mail icon in the Launchpad to
open Mail Application.
Does it open?
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upward about two inches, it will vanish in a puff of smoke.
Launch Mail, when Mail icon appears in the Dock, right click it,select "Options"
and then "Keep in Dock".

Have a macbook pro running 10.8.5. Safari updated a day ago and now it is corrupt and will not open

I have a macbook pro running 10.8.5. Safari updated a day ago and now it is corrupt and will not open. It upgraded to 6.1. What is the best proceedure to get Safari working again?
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Firefox suddenly crashed and will not open

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"Firefox had a problem and crashed. We'll try to restore your tabs and windows when it restarts"
I submitted the crash report all 3 times it crashed successfully. But now, Firefox will not open at all,not even in safe mode.
I have looked through any suggestions and nothing works. I can't even get the profile manager to open to test it.
I would like to roll back to a previous version, IF that will solve this problem,but it's my bookmarks that I want to save. I don't want to lose them. But how can I import them if I can't even get FF to start?
I did see a folder called bookmark backups or something, but for some reason it isn't showing all of them.
Also, I was in a live chat with someone trying to help but they just left :( I was able to see my crash report via the instructions on this site, but now what? What do I do with it?
Please can someone help me?
== Crash ID(s) ==
Crash ID: bp-0e13ebf8-31f7-4c8c-af10-a71212100629 ; Crash ID: bp-045b2c26-cdf2-4cae-9515-af4ee2100629 ; Crash ID: bp-b4b9d0ed-913b-4d0b-a7e9-f85c82100629
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser_will_not_start_up
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firefox+crashes

After I reinstall Itunes, the message read "the file iTunes Library.it cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of itunes, i have tried with iTunes version 11.1, 10.1 and 9.1 still come up with the same message and will not open iTunes

after I reinstall Itunes, the message read "the file iTunes Library.it cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of itunes, i have tried with iTunes version 11.1, 10.1 and 9.1 still come up with the same message and will not open iTunes

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OK so I’m late contributing to this thread, but this issue has recently started on one of our SMB shares and has been plaguing me for 6 weeks. I spent some time trying to find a fix and found any number of users who have had this issue, I tried a lot of 'fixes' which I'd cut and past into a text file from various user groups and cannot remember where I picked this one up so apologies to the orginal poster.
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Help my Safari keeps crashing on me and will not open.

Help my Safari keeps crashing on me and will not open.
i recently reset osx lion due to some issues and now i try to open safari and it crashes.
what should i do?

is this enough?
Process:         Safari [4701]
Path:            /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Identifier:      com.apple.Safari
Version:         5.1.7 (7534.57.7)
Build Info:      WebBrowser-7534057007000000~2
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [305]
Date/Time:       2013-07-12 16:00:10.736 +1000
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63)
Report Version: 9
Interval Since Last Report:          224849 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           23
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 28 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   19
Anonymous UUID:                      B5556FB4-2BC3-4807-A886-3E1E310F3941
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
objc[4701]: garbage collection is OFF
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Invalid parameter not satisfying: (index >= 0) && (index < [_itemArray count])'
*** First throw call stack:
          0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff94ae9f56 __exceptionPreprocess + 198
          1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff8fc20d5e objc_exception_throw + 43
          2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff94ae9d8a +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 106
          3   Foundation                          0x00007fff97d7f71f -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 169
          4   AppKit                              0x00007fff8d0b462b -[NSMenu itemAtIndex:] + 165
          5   AppKit                              0x00007fff8d0b4784 -[NSMenu removeItemAtIndex:] + 63
          6   Safari                              0x00000001066f05be -[AppController awakeFromNib] + 387
          7   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff94ae0fb1 -[NSObject performSelector:] + 49
          8   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff94ae0f32 -[NSSet makeObjectsPerformSelector:] + 274
          9   AppKit                              0x00007fff8d09c347 -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 1245
          10 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d0928bb loadNib + 322
          11 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d091db8 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 217
          12 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d091cd3 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibFile:externalNameTable:withZone:] + 141
          13 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d091c16 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 364
          14 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d302cd7 NSApplicationMain + 398
          15 Safari                              0x00000001068f90ba SafariMain + 166
          16 Safari                              0x00000001066e0f24 Safari + 3876
terminate called throwing an exception
abort() called
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff8f2f7ce2 __pthread_kill + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff9810b7d2 pthread_kill + 95
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff980fca7a abort + 143
3   libc++abi.dylib                         0x00007fff9326c7bc abort_message + 214
4   libc++abi.dylib                         0x00007fff93269fcf default_terminate() + 28
5   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x00007fff8fc211b9 _objc_terminate + 94
6   libc++abi.dylib                         0x00007fff9326a001 safe_handler_caller(void (*)()) + 11
7   libc++abi.dylib                         0x00007fff9326a05c std::terminate() + 16
8   libc++abi.dylib                         0x00007fff9326b152 __cxa_throw + 114
9   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x00007fff8fc20e7a objc_exception_throw + 327
10 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff94ae9d8a +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 106
11 com.apple.Foundation                    0x00007fff97d7f71f -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 169
12 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff8d0b462b -[NSMenu itemAtIndex:] + 165
13 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff8d0b4784 -[NSMenu removeItemAtIndex:] + 63
14 com.apple.Safari.framework              0x00000001066f05be -[AppController awakeFromNib] + 387
15 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff94ae0fb1 -[NSObject performSelector:] + 49
16 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff94ae0f32 -[NSSet makeObjectsPerformSelector:] + 274
17 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff8d09c347 -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 1245
18 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff8d0928bb loadNib + 322
19 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff8d091db8 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 217
20 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff8d091cd3 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibFile:externalNameTable:withZone:] + 141
21 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff8d091c16 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 364
22 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff8d302cd7 NSApplicationMain + 398
23 com.apple.Safari.framework              0x00000001068f90ba SafariMain + 166
24 com.apple.Safari                        0x00000001066e0f24 0x1066e0000 + 3876
Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff8f2f87e6 kevent + 10
1   libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff9403c786 _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 923
2   libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff9403b316 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 54
Thread 2:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff8f2f8192 __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff9810b594 _pthread_wqthread + 758
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff9810cb85 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 3:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff8f2f8192 __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff9810b594 _pthread_wqthread + 758
2   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff9810cb85 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 4:: WebCore: IconDatabase
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff8f2f7bca __psynch_cvwait + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff9810d274 _pthread_cond_wait + 840
2   com.apple.WebCore                       0x00000001077c5e8b WebCore::IconDatabase::syncThreadMainLoop() + 107
3   com.apple.WebCore                       0x00000001077c39a4 WebCore::IconDatabase::iconDatabaseSyncThread() + 500
4   com.apple.JavaScriptCore                0x000000010710127f _ZN3WTFL19wtfThreadEntryPointEPv + 15
5   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff981098bf _pthread_start + 335
6   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff9810cb75 thread_start + 13
Thread 5:: CoreAnimation render server
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff8f2f667a mach_msg_trap + 10
1   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff8f2f5d71 mach_msg + 73
2   com.apple.QuartzCore                    0x00007fff91264df5 CA::Render::Server::server_thread(void*) + 184
3   com.apple.QuartzCore                    0x00007fff91264d35 thread_fun + 24
4   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff981098bf _pthread_start + 335
5   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff9810cb75 thread_start + 13
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x0000000000000000 rbx: 0x0000000000000006 rcx: 0x00007fff662de418 rdx: 0x0000000000000000
rdi: 0x000000000000060b rsi: 0x0000000000000006 rbp: 0x00007fff662de440 rsp: 0x00007fff662de418
   r8: 0x00007fff7d871fb8   r9: 0x00007fff662ddea8 r10: 0x00007fff8f2f7d0a r11: 0xffffff80002dad60
r12: 0x00007f867143e720 r13: 0x0000000000000005 r14: 0x00007fff7d874960 r15: 0x00007fff662de590
rip: 0x00007fff8f2f7ce2 rfl: 0x0000000000000246 cr2: 0x00007f867184bffe
Logical CPU: 0

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