Mail won't work. Spinning ball upon opening.

Mail worked flawlessly until earlier I opened the app
and I get a spinning ball that won't stop spinning.
I let it go for at least 10 minutes until I forced
quit and each time I open Mail this happens- with
reboot or shutdown and restart. Anyone know what's
wrong? I can access my .Mac accounts through the
web, but it's a pain.
Thank you in advance!
Macbook Core Duo Mac OS X
(10.4.8) no software updates left to
install
I am having the same issue, and I also cannot access.mac to see my emails that way. Mail was working fine til about an hour ago. Mail keeps trying to load messages, and they don't load and eventually they disappear from my inbox. Not sure what the probelm is, but it seems like it is something at .Mac and not at my computer. I can surf the web and other parts of the Apple website, I just can't get into the log in or mail pages.
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