Mail Problem / System Prefs Problem

[Matt Henderson]

Hello All,

Having convinced my brother to give the MacOS X platform a try, he bought
an iMac. He's been quite happy so far, but we've ran into the following
problems (existed in 10.2.3 and continue in 10.2.4):

(1) Apple Mail.app

Mail has recently stopped sending outgoing mail. All outgoing mail is now
stacking up in the "Out" box. Nothing is displayed in the Activity window
when the "Send" button is clicked (as cleint/server communications *are*
displayed when *receiving* mail). It can receive mail just fine.

Furthermore, it's now only possible to quit Mail.app using "Force Quit",
even if no user action has been performed -- i.e. it is not possible to
launch, and then immediatley quit Mail.

I've ran "Repair Permissions" from the Disk Utility. It found lots of
things to repair, but apparently nothing related to this problem.

I've setup Microsoft Entourage, which happily sends outgoing mail, so the
problem is obviously not related to the ISP (Charter.net.)


(2) System Preferences

I've tried installing a number of 3rd party System Preferences, e.g.
Default Folder, and MaxMenus and *nothing* shows up in the System
Preferences. In fact, there's not even an "Other" section being displayed.


I'm hoping somebody on this list may have an idea how to resolve either or
both of these problems. Many, many thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

-- 
Matt Henderson | matt at makalumedia.com | http://www.makalumedia.com/