Jay- Thank you. but I am addicted to iphoto integration w/mail. Also, i automatically open into mail when responding to many links and listings. Ideas? Lisa -- Lisa b.Hammond Production Design & Styling 206.579.4550 -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Jay Reiter <jayphotos at tcq.net> > Lisa - I had very similar issues with mail on my G4iBook running Tiger - > and the same report from Apple techs - I downloaded Thunderbird from > Mozilla and have been in mail heaven ever since. > > lbhammond at comcast.net wrote: > > Hello. > > my G4iBook/os10.3.3 began keyboard symptoms while in the mail program last > > 10/05. > > These were first: no response to the "reply","reply all" both in the mail > window > > and in the main mail tool bar. "forward" and others seemed ok. > > Then the keyboard started to not respond to "delete", then typing would > decrease > > and finally not accept more that one letter to a line. Ultimately, the > "send"key > > won't respond. Ultimately, the keyboard symptoms migrate into "apple works and > > text-edit". > > I have had the apple store people do software repairs and hardware checks and > > clean reinstalls and archive installs and then > > give me a brand new G4 iBook with os 10.4 and all the updates. and then the > > symptoms reappeared on the new machine that night!?. > > and the apple store people went thru it all again but tried different things, > > including trashing and rebuilding the mail plist and tried trashing my > > administrator accounts and rebuilding and trying with their personal accounts > in > > my programs, andever kind of custom reinstall for mail.....and everything they > > could think of. > > At least twice during all of these attempts, apple used their hardrives to > > backup my info: one of these times they unknowingly used a corrupt hard drive! > > The other times they used my backup for the data transfer. > > The software and applications I have and use are not advanced: iphoto, > itunes, > > mail, epson perifreals, palm handheld, adobe photoshop elements. > > > > The things I have tried to keep saved to my desktop are: my desk top text > files > > and the updated Quicken 14.0.2 data files. > > > > I cannot give you an exact play by play nor have I been given every repair > > report as apple did not generate a customer copy each time. > > > > I currently cannot use my mail program. I was told at the apple store, that > now > > they don't know what it could be and that I will have to send it to cupertino > > for repair. > > I don't know what to do. > > Please help me.-- > > Lisa b.Hammond > > Production Design & Styling > > 206.579.4550 > > _______________________________________________ > > G4 mailing list > > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984