Hi!
Background: I fried my old Tiger MacBook's motherboard with a cup of coffee and got a new Leopard MacBook (10.5.6) a couple of weeks ago. Geek Squad switched the hard drives temporarily so I could finish some work quickly on my old hard drive (the old Mail worked fine, even in the new machine), and then swapped them back, and migrated my settings, etc., and set up the old Tiger hard drive as an external back-up for the new Leopard's Time Machine. Don't know if any of this is related to the problem.
The problem: The Mail on this new Leopard's hard drive has never worked. The menu along the top of the screen will show that Mail is active. However, the message viewer doesn't come up automatically (not sure it's supposed to, though, in Leopard). It won't send or receive emails, though I've gone over all the possible fixes with my server, Comcast, and the problem isn't with the Comcast settings. It also won't let me shut it down unless I "force quit" it. (It also doesn't show my old emails, which I'd hoped would be migrated in, though I don't know if my hopes were realistic.)
So far: I've reinstalled it, which made no difference. My Safari works just fine, and I've been using that to use my email at Comcast's website. But it would be convenient to get the Mail up, instead.
Thanks for any advice!
Ooh, one other question: I can't tell if this new MacBook (and its own new hard drive?) were registered when Geek Squad migrated the settings, and can't find how to register or how to check. Any info?
Background: I fried my old Tiger MacBook's motherboard with a cup of coffee and got a new Leopard MacBook (10.5.6) a couple of weeks ago. Geek Squad switched the hard drives temporarily so I could finish some work quickly on my old hard drive (the old Mail worked fine, even in the new machine), and then swapped them back, and migrated my settings, etc., and set up the old Tiger hard drive as an external back-up for the new Leopard's Time Machine. Don't know if any of this is related to the problem.
The problem: The Mail on this new Leopard's hard drive has never worked. The menu along the top of the screen will show that Mail is active. However, the message viewer doesn't come up automatically (not sure it's supposed to, though, in Leopard). It won't send or receive emails, though I've gone over all the possible fixes with my server, Comcast, and the problem isn't with the Comcast settings. It also won't let me shut it down unless I "force quit" it. (It also doesn't show my old emails, which I'd hoped would be migrated in, though I don't know if my hopes were realistic.)
So far: I've reinstalled it, which made no difference. My Safari works just fine, and I've been using that to use my email at Comcast's website. But it would be convenient to get the Mail up, instead.
Thanks for any advice!
Ooh, one other question: I can't tell if this new MacBook (and its own new hard drive?) were registered when Geek Squad migrated the settings, and can't find how to register or how to check. Any info?