OSX Lion: Mail Starts then Hangs

Ever since I downloaded Lion, I cannot get to Apple Mail.
The app tries to start, hangs forever until I close it.
Is this an effect of MobileMe?
Anyone else having that problem?

Ok, so things have improved. I shut down my machine (a few times), each time ensuring I checked the message that windows weren't saved ...
I waited for spotlight index to do more of it's indexing. Then I tried again, didn't work, so I forced quit mail.
Then I fixed disk permissions (in disk utility) and shut down the computer (I read this might be helpful for general issues on another thread).
Then went back in, started mail and it asked if I wanted to reopen the window (which I assumed meant from the previous session). I said no. Then tried again, this time after a wait, things progressed. And mail has just loaded. It took about 45-60 mins to migrate and clean up.
Spotlight indexing can be located in the top right corner of the screen - menu, if it's indexing it turns into a magnifying glass. And if you click on it, it gives you more detail...
Good luck!

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If you are going to become a pure Apple site, then you could use just the Apple software and this would be cheaper than using Kerio. For 30 users this might be a suitable solution, however even in a pure Apple environment many people prefer Kerio. For example I find Kerio much more pleasent when dealing with email addresses across multiple domains, email aliases, email group addresses, and so on. Kerio also has built-in email archiving, that is keeping a record of all emails. Kerio also provides a web-browser client for accessing email, calendar and contacts. It is worth noting that as standard Mountain Lion Server no longer includes a webmail feature. While I personally find the Kerio webclient rather ugly it does work.
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Again, both of you have been really helpful. Thank you so much.
If you are both still on this thread, I would like to ask about solutions to a space problem:
My primary computer is a MacBook Pro (Lion 10.7.3), where I am running Entourage 2008 (13.1.2). Because I have limited space on my MBP for housing old emails (under "On My Computer"), I created a server from an old Mac in my office. Then, using Entourage 2008 from my MBP, I created an additional IMAP account on the old Mac server, with subfolders for "email_2005", "sent_email_2005", "email_2006", "sent_email_2006", etc. This is where I archive all my old email. The nice thing about setting it up this way is that I can search any or all of these folders anytime, and from any location, directly from my Entourage 2008 app on my MBP, yet they take up no space on my MBP.
First of all, I suspect there were easier ways to archive off emails from my MBP, but after searching and asking for weeks, this is what I settled on and it has served me well for years.
But now, my old Mac really is getting old and I'm worried it will die at some point. Plus I'm not thrilled about trying to maintain the server software on this old Mac.
I also have space on a shared drive maintained by ITS, that's backed-up nightly. This would be an ideal place to house archived mail folders. Then I could take down the server on my old Mac and not worry about it anymore. Unfortunately, I have not been able to set up an IMAP account on my shared drive space (I suspect it's against the ITS rules of this drive).
Entourage 2008 does not permit me to designate where "On My Computer" folders are housed (they have to be on the same computer running the Entourage 2008 app). If I could designate the location of "On My Computer" folders, a simple solution would have been to just locate them on the shared drive and I wouldn't have to bother with creating additional IMAP accounts housed elsewhere.
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2) Is there a simpler solution to archiving emails off my laptop, but that would also allow them to be conveniently searchable from within a mail app on my laptop?
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Ok, so things have improved. I shut down my machine (a few times), each time ensuring I checked the message that windows weren't saved ...
I waited for spotlight index to do more of it's indexing. Then I tried again, didn't work, so I forced quit mail.
Then I fixed disk permissions (in disk utility) and shut down the computer (I read this might be helpful for general issues on another thread).
Then went back in, started mail and it asked if I wanted to reopen the window (which I assumed meant from the previous session). I said no. Then tried again, this time after a wait, things progressed. And mail has just loaded. It took about 45-60 mins to migrate and clean up.
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