Mail in Leopard Won't Shut Down

[Grumpyguy]

Intermittent problem with Mail in Leopard 10.5.1.

For instance, say I choose shutdown and the OS dutifully starts closing all my running apps. It closes Mail, but I'll get a dialogue message saying "shutdown has been canceled because Mail failed to shutdown" or something like that.

So, then, I will go to Mail, tell it to "quit"--It quits, but then automatically starts up again. I can even force quit it and it starts up again.

To shutdown the computer, I have to hold the power button.

As for Mail, I have no pending messages in the outbox.

Anyone seen this? Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Bryan

[martin]

Never heard of this one. But....I believe in Onyx (as well as other maintenance utilities) there is an option to "rebuild Mail envelope" or some such. Worth a try....

I assume you have repaired permissions? Verified disk structure?

[sekker]

Mail is definitely flakier in 10.5 (and 10.5.1) than 10.4 on my machine. I had to force quit it just last night. Restarted, and everything was ok again, tho.