My mail application will not open, can anyone help?

Hello - when I click on my desktop mail icon, nothing happens. I'm not sure how to fix this and have looked but didn't find the answers, I know it's probably very basic, but would appreciate any help. Thanks!

Generally, the ikons you'll place on your desktop, (and all of those which reside on the DOCK) will be 'aliases,' which simply direct the machine to follow the path to the Application itself.
Your 'Applications' folder should be visible in the left-hand collum on any open window. Open it. If an Application will open directly it means that the path to the alias was broken and you need to delete it and make a new one, or track down its real location through the finder. Try not to ever place Applications themselves on your desktop.
After 8 days without Mail, I just succeeded at restoring mom's connections on her iMac. I'll be happy to make more suggestions as needed...

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See possible fixes here.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19760703#19760703
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4311280?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19710911#19710911
Some have reported success simply by reinstalling the update.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1586
Or download and apply, or reapply, the 10.6.8 Combo update first, then apply the Security Update again.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4424?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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Security Update 2012-004 (Snow Leopard)
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What does “I ran the Disk Utility” mean? Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
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