Problems with "Mail" from Jaguar

[Testnutzer]

Dear Jerry, Dear list,

I would like to add the following. With this information, perhaps 
somebody knows a solution or at least can tell me, what exactly goes 
wrong.

The application mail fails after restarting my computer.
It does not fail, if I only let the eMac go to sleep or if I log out 
and log in again.

But when I chose "shut down" or "restart" from the Apple menue, it fails
There seems to be no countermeasure to get the application to work 
again.

Removing com.apple.mail.plist from users/username/library/preferences 
does not help.

The only way to get mail to work is to create another user and not 
shutting down the eMac.

Does anybody know what this means?

Thank you!

Besides: Mail seems to be a very nice application. But if it really 
doesn't work, well I will look for alternatives.
What mail program do you use? Can you recommend it?

Karsten Kühn


>

> Dear Jerry,
>
> Thank you very much for your advice.
>
> I formatted the harddisc today.
> Then I perfomed a clean install of 10.3 and run the updater right 
> after that.
> Now I have sytem 10.2.3
>
> I was able to use Mail one time.
> It downloaded several mails and I was able to send one.
>
> Then I shut down the computer. After about 3 or 4 hours, I decided to 
> check again.
>
> It now fails again.
>
> Nothing  happens until the computer falls asleep. (after an hour or so)
>
> As you advised, I created another user and logged in as "testperson".
>
> Now, mail works again.
> It shows me a window, it seems to receive messages but it refuses to 
> send one. ( I am almost sure that
> my entries were correct, but I will double check them)
>
> As far as I understand you, this means that my users/username folder 
> is corrupt or something similar.
> What do you think, I should do?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Karsten Kuehn