Mail won't quit and won't receive messages

My Mail.app won't quit (needs to be forced quit) and won't pick up new messages. It does send, but it won't register as having done so. How do I reinstall it? I don't want to have to reinstall Leopard from scratch. It seems to think it's offline, because it eventually times out, but it doesn't say it's offline in the menu and taking it offline and putting it back doesn't help. Thanks.

try the following:
1) log in as another user and try to use Mail - if you don't have another user created on your computer, just create one as a test. If with that other user you can access Mail and work in it, then you may have a user specific issue. If you still have the same issue then you may have a Mail specific issue.
2) If Mail works under another user, then go to application>utilities>disk utility and repair permissions. Then try Mail again under your main user account. If not solved then go to 3)
3) Do a custom install from your Leopard disk, and re-install Mail only.
hope this helps.

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