My mail app won't come up when i click on it.

My mail application won’t come up when i press on it. But when i click on mail the mail bar still comes up at the top of my screen. This is also preventing my macbook to shut down as well. It says the mail application has canceled shut down. What do I do?

Try clicking GO in the menu bar/Go to folder in the pane enter  ~/Library/Preferences/com,apple.mail.plist
Another way is to hold the OPTION key click GO in the menu bar>Library>Preferences, locate the the file com.apple.mail.plist
Drag this file to the trash (do not empty)
Quit Mail log out and reboot, see if that helps, if it does not you can drag the file from the trash and and replace it where it was. (it will probably give you a this file already exists, click replace)
Post back there may another thing to check.
ATB

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