Quit mail is grayed out.

I am not able to close mail. "Quit Mail" is grayed out. What can I do?

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Use Force Quit. Press Alt, Command and Esc keys, select Mail and close it, so it should be closed

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All of a sudden, "Erase Junk Mail" is grayed out.
Anyone know why or how I can get it working again?
I'm using OSX 10.5.8 and Mail 3.6.

Hello Roger,
I don't have any direct answers for you, but I may be able to point you some people who do. Check out this older thread that provides a number of potential solutions. Hope it helps.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1321743
B-rock

Old mail keeps coming back? & Junk Mail Delete grayed out.

Issue 1
Old mail, dated from previous months, keeps appearing, mainly in Trash.
I read some Discussion about 'ipurge,' -- I tried it as a Terminal command but said it wasn't there.
I checked with the mail server - Google -- and the emails are not there...
Issue 2
Also, on Mail menu>Mailboxes>Erase Junk Mail is grayed out.....and maybe this happen after starting to use a spam filter (SpamSieve).
I sure wish I didn't get so much spam. My email address must have recently gotten picked up...it's disgusting.

ONE DAY LATER -
From another thread I got the idea to check out these ever returning trashed emails. The idea there was to delete Google's Junk folder.
Did that but it didn't seem to solve the problem although the idea of investigating the Google Mail Server.
That led to discover that after clicking on Trash/Delete for emails they went into a Trash folder -- and stayed there -- and a 2nd trashing was necessary and there was a tab/button saying: DELETE FOVEVER, which sort of implies that Trashed items hang around and require this 2nd trashing, with clicking DELETE FOREVER (see photo).
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Recently my mail program has changed itself and I can no longer see the red, yellow and green dots allowing me to close minimize and enlarge. To get out of mail I have to put the cursor on the top edge of the toolbar expanding to another toolbar that will allow me to quit mail. This is a real pain right where my mother never kissed me. How do I get the dots back?

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Sorry, I should have explained it more. I had 186 To Do items in the Mail To Do section that were working fine before I installed Snow Leopard (I was able to mark them complete or incomplete, rename, and edit them). After installing Snow Leopard, half of them are grayed out and half of them are working correctly. I am unable to mark the grayed out To Do items complete, or rename or edit them. The To Do items that are grayed out are random, like, it's not all of the complete ones, or all of the ones that are in a month or so.
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I thought it might be something ridiculously simple like this that I'd accidentally messed with....not that I was even aware of this option until now. Still don't know how I managed to take them offline, without meaning to, but now that I know about this, can check here first if it happens again. thanks!

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Select the account and check the box marked Enable this account in the Account Information tab.

Incoming mail server grayed out

My Mac Mail (icloud) account is acting up - the incoming mail server is gray out and can not be changed. It says :
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As it is now, it reads: mail.example.com
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Try this work around.
Open Mail, not in Full screen mode. You need to be in classic lay-out.
< Command - , > to open preferences if you need to switch
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Delete the Junk.mbox and empty the Trash. This will delete the account's Junk mailbox and all junk messages within.
Launch Mail, and a new Junk.mbox will be created automatically within the account named folder when the next message received is automatically or manually marked as junk and moved to the account's Junk mailbox.
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The mail app on my Imac seems to be hung up or locked.
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Can't seem to do any thing no new mail it seem it is all old mail.
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Quit mail is grayed out.

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