Please help with Mac Mail freezing

Everytime I go to mac mail I get the spinning beach ball forever and then eventually have to force-quit. I have 10.4.11 on a G4 Powerbook 1.67. Is there a way to trash my mail program and download a new one?

Backup everything important immediately, preferably to a Firewire drive...
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
Have a look at Synchronize! Pro X 6.0.5
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6897/synchronize!-pro-x
Or the most expensive one & my favorite, Tri-Backup...
http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html
Then get a new internal drive.

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Wondering how i fix this. Thank you!
<Email Edited By Host>

If you haven't made any changes and suddenly the Mail program tells you a password is rejected, in most cases the password is just fine and there's nothing wrong with your computer. There's a little dance that goes on between your computer and the mail server when you check your mail and each step has a time limit set to it. If at any step time runs out the dance ends and Mail tells you there was a problem and in most cases the error message tells you that the password failed rather than reporting there was a time out error.
There's a reason for this that only programmers would care about. In most cases if you ignore the error message and try again later your mail comes through. What's really crazy is that sometimes (and this happened to me with both iCloud and gmail earlier this week) you can't get mail with the Mail app but you can log in with Safari and get your mail just fine. That's nice because you can verify that you really do know your password but annoying because it makes you think something may be wrong with your computer.

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You said you never used a password when checking you mail. You must have a password on the account, I don't see how you couldn't.
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I have just bought my first mac after years of pc use.
I would love to be able to access my hotmail.co.uk account through mac mail on os x tiger.
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