This has been happening since I installed 10.2.4 on this Dual 1.42 G4 (i.e. I've never got it to work), and as such there is no actuall mail in "mail".
I cannot update OSX as this G4 is running Avid media composer, although I have deleted the Mbox, lots of assorted Plists & prefs, and even reinstalled both apps using pacifist, nothings worked.
Although I have created another user, and everything works fine in this new user, everythings caput in the old user still.
Here are the Error & Crash Logs for mail-
Mail Console Error---
2003-10-06 13:22:50.180 Mail[532] ABAddressBook could not aquireLock: writeLock error No such file or directory: 'Framework/AddressBook/ABAddressBook.m' line: 1396
2003-10-06 13:22:50.180 Mail[532] -[ABAddressBook _initDefaultContactManager] Can't _acquireLock Framework/AddressBook/ABAddressBook.m:1403
Oct 6 13:22:50 users-Computer crashdump: Crash report written to: /Users/user/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Mail.crash.log
2003-10-06 13:22:51.334 Console[499] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: *** NSRunStorage, _NSBlockNumberForIndex(): index (44513) beyond array bounds (44513)
Mail crash log---
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Date/Time: 2003-10-06 13:22:50 -0700
OS Version: 10.2.4 (Build 6J54)
Host: users-Computer.local.
Command: Mail
PID: 532
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000
Thread 0:
#0 0x90073c28 in mach_msg_trap
#1 0x90005f70 in mach_msg
#2 0x90148b10 in __CFRunLoopRun
#3 0x90180fe4 in CFRunLoopRunSpecific
#4 0x969a30f0 in RunCurrentEventLoopInMode
#5 0x969b30a8 in ReceiveNextEventCommon
#6 0x969da198 in BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode
#7 0x9308d89c in _DPSNextEvent
#8 0x9309faf4 in -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:]
#9 0x930b15d4 in -[NSApplication run]
#10 0x9315f6a8 in NSApplicationMain
#11 0x00004570 in 0x4570
#12 0x000043f0 in 0x43f0
Thread 1 Crashed:
#0 0x93a57d18 in _ZN7c4_View11AddPropertyERK11c4_Property
#1 0x93a5567c in _ZN10c4_Storage11DescriptionEPKc
#2 0x93a53fd4 in _Z16getViewFromTablePK10__CFString
#3 0x93a5e734 in getCardCount
#4 0x93a5e634 in +[ABInfo _setupWithSharedAddressBook:]
#5 0x93a5c85c in +[ABAddressBook _sharedAddressBook]
#6 0x93a5c614 in +[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook]
#7 0x942117c0 in -[MailAddressManager loadAddressBookSynchronously]
#8 0x9068c258 in objc_msgSendv
#9 0x907ed154 in -[NSInvocation invoke]
#10 0x941f8658 in -[MonitoredInvocation invoke]
#11 0x941f69e0 in -[InvocationQueue _drainQueue]
#12 0x9081cd10 in forkThreadForFunction
#13 0x90020d28 in _pthread_body
Thread 2:
#0 0x90014d08 in syscall_thread_switch
#1 0x907f42dc in +[NSThread sleepUntilDate:]
#2 0x93081684 in -[NSUIHeartBeat _heartBeatThread:]
#3 0x9081cd10 in forkThreadForFunction
#4 0x90020d28 in _pthread_body
PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x93a57d18 srr1: 0x0200f030 vrsave: 0x00000000
xer: 0x00000000 lr: 0x93a54780 ctr: 0x9005e2b8 mq: 0x00000000
r0: 0x93a54774 r1: 0xf008f1b0 r2: 0x44000280 r3: 0x00000000
r4: 0xf008f1f0 r5: 0x00000000 r6: 0x80808080 r7: 0x00000002
r8: 0x00102010 r9: 0x00000001 r10: 0x00102290 r11: 0xa00044b0
r12: 0x9005e2b8 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0x00000000
r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x00000000 r23: 0x00000000
r24: 0x00000000 r25: 0xf008f310 r26: 0xa3a53f50 r27: 0xf008f2a0
r28: 0xf008f1f0 r29: 0x00000000 r30: 0x00000000 r31: 0x93a53f50