<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 4, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Jones Al <<a href="mailto:austexal@austin.rr.com">austexal@austin.rr.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Quite sometime ago I deleted Mail from my wife’s Mac Mini running OS 10.6.8 as she was using Entourage which is becoming flaky and won’t rebuild. How can I restore “mail” and not lose all of her mail boxes of which are numerous. The latest install CD I have is 10.5.6 as her machine came already loaded with 10.6.8. I don’t want to upgrade her machine as she needs rosetta for some of her apps that she does not want to give up.</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Do you mean that you removed/sent to trash and erased the Mail.app from the Applications folder? Or that you removed the actual mail files from the mail folder?</div><div><br></div><div>If it's the latter, you should be able to import the desired mail files from within Mail.app. I can't testify as to how well Mail.app will pull in the arrangements you have in Entourage but if I had to guess, I'd assume Mail would preserve your mailboxes.</div><div><br></div><div>If you removed the actual Mail.app application program, that is another fish entirely. I do not believe that you can simply install Mail.app and have things be hunky dory because it seems many OS X apps are integrated with each other and with the OS itself, but again others could weigh in on this.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope all goes well for you.</div><div><br></div><div>cat</div><br></body></html>