Mail quits

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broubrou

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It started with an incoming mail from MySpace.com.
I trashed it from the user/Labrary/Mail/mailbox together with the Mail preferenc file, and Mail worked again fine.
But as soon as a new incoming mail arrives it quits.
If I manage to launch Mail without opening a mailbox containing a new mail, it's ok. But as soon as I click on one of the mailboxes containing new incoming mails, it quits. And it corrupts the preference file.

I trashed the Mail preference file, repeared the authorizations with Onyx and HardDisk Toolkit, reinstalled Mail.app from the Apple DVD with Pacifist, trashed Mail's cache, trashed Flip4Mac. But Mail still quits with the first incoming message.

By the way Thunderbird works fine, but I need all my messages in Mail !

Any solution ?
Many thanks !

Titanium G4, 1GHz, 10.4.8, 768Mo RAM
 
You could have a corrupt message causing this.
If you have web mail, go into that and read and delete all the mail, then try Mail.
 
Thanks for answering, but I already did this ...
The problem appeared on february the 23th, so I trashed all messages from this date and following.
I just tried again Mail, as my inbox on my webmail is empty, it didn't quit. But when I tried to send a new test mail, it quits.
Checking my webmail this test mail was there, but the preference file is now corrupt and I'm back to the starting point.
 
You could try deleting the account and setting it up as new, but this will delete all messages in that account;

1-In Mail.app, go to Preferences under the File menu
2-Click on the "Accounts" button
3-Select the problematic account(s) then click the minus (-) button to delete it
4-Quit Mail.app
5-Navigate to ~/Library/Preferences and delete the file com.apple.mail.plist
6-Relaunch Mail.app
7-Re-establish account information using the automatic setup tool, or from the "Accounts" pane of Preferences by clicking the plus (+) button
 
I have a usual account and I had a trial .mac account that is deleted now.
When I delete the file com.apple.mail.list I lose my usual account, so each time I try to relaunch Mail I have to create a new "usual" account.
But Mail always quits.

I created a new session on Mac OSX and only launch Mail: it quits and behaves exactly the same.
 
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