[X Newbies] Can't Open Mail

[Joe Sporleder]

This is probably a silly question, but have you tried restarting? I 
know that MacOS X is not supposed to require restarting, but I have 
gotten this to fix some strange problems similar to yours. As far as 
your preferences for mail, they are stored in your library in your user 
account folder, so those can be backed up, or even moved if you need to 
build a new account.

Joe

On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 07:02  PM, Deborah Hagen wrote:

> I've been having trouble with "sleep mode" wherein my PowerMac G4 
> 10.2.6
> starts to go to sleep, then wakes back up halfway through and the mouse
> quits (cursor can no longer be moved, unresponsive to clicking buttons,
> keyboard unresponsive).
>
> Force quitting has caused serious problems: now Mail won't open 
> anymore.
> Error message says Mail has "unexpectedly quit."  Repairing 
> permissions and
> fsck haven't fixed it.  Do I have to reinstall Mail and if so, how?  Is
> there any way to save all my rules, accounts, addresses, mail, etc.?
>
> Please help!
>
> Deb Hagen
> debhagen at mac.com