[X4U] Mail won't launch

[Wayne Wilkin]

Sometime when my mail gets hung up like that I go to the Users home  
directory/Library/Caches/Mail, and delete all the cache files for  
mail, this usually helps for me, Wayne.

On Nov 25, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Jim Freeman wrote:

> I'm trying to help my father over the telephone. Apple Mail won't  
> launch on his G4 iBook running 10.4.8. It used to work fine.  
> Everything else seems to work fine. But when he tries to launch  
> Mail it bounces a couple of times (or half a time), but never  
> starts up. I had him repair preferences. I had him run Preferential  
> Treatment. I had him trash com.apple.mail.plist. Nothing seems to  
> help. Can he reinstall just Mail from the Tiger installation disk?  
> Tiger didn't come with the computer. I upgraded him to Tiger later on.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated. If I can't help him over the  
> phone, I'll be trying to solve the problems myself when I visit for  
> Christmas.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
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