Mountain Lion Mail upgrade hangs- One Solution
Just upgraded to Moutnain Lion and updating Mail Upgrade and it hangs , as many others have found.
My Solution!
Force Quit. Restart. Try mail again. If it hangs again, force quit and the second time I restarted it all kicked in and did its job upgrading Mail. (Phew)
All is OK.
The second restart seem to solve the problem for me.
Good luck
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.3)