Where can I download Mail.app 3.6 update?

Question

Hi there,
I update my OS X to 10.5.8 and like many others, Mail 3.5 stopped working.
I'm not keen to download a combo update because of the large file size and my slow bandwidth in South Africa (over 6hrs to download probably).
Where can I find an update for Mail 3.6 only?
Thank you!
Anne-Sophie

Answer 1

how do I create a bootable backup of my system?
You need to buy an external hard drive with at least 20% more capacity than your internal hard drive (or larger, since even terabyte hard drives are pretty inexpensive these days), and then use software such as SuperDuper, or Carbon Copy Cloner to make the backup. I prefer SuperDuper, but it's your choice.
After you've made the initial backup, you need to do it every day to keep everything preserved, and especially do it before you install any system updates; that way, if something does wrong, you can restore your system from the backup and not have lost anything.
why does Apple releases large system updates that have issues?
They don't intentionally do that. No OS is without bugs, no matter what the engineers do, and Apple does extensive testing in-house to find problems, but they can't test it on every system they've ever released that it will run on, or even test all possible scenarios; they focus on the more recent Mac models (not just the most recent models they released; they do go back several models in the line and test also).