Can't open Mail Preferences in OSX 10.6.8

[Muzzatow]

I've had a few problems with Mail recently. First the icon disappeared from the dock. I fixed that by grabbing it from the Applications file and then did a MailboxRebuild. Everything worked fine except the menu buttons had lost colour and there were no little blue lights to show new mail in the Inbox.Well, I thought, go to the Mail Preferences to fix this. But lo and behold Mail Preferences won't open.

Can anyone shed any light on how to restore the Preferences?

Many thanks, Muzzatow

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

when mail is the active window, press ⌘ ,

when you click on Mail in the upper left menu bar, is there not Preferences second in the drop down list?

 

[Muzzatow]

Thanks for the quick reply. I can't get a response by clicking on the Mail menu item "Preferences" and can't get it by tapping the keyboard shortcut either. Never struck this problem before.

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

if you launch Mail directly from the Applications folder, the same result?

 

[Muzzatow]

Yep. Same result, and still no color in menu bar buttons or blue dots to show un-opened mail.