mail app 4.5 can't be used with 10.6.8 after security update?

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mail app 4.5 can't be used with 10.6.8 after security update?

I just performed a security update based on an automatic notice to my Mac. It has made the mail app unaccesible running OSX 10.6.8. Is there a solution or work around here? I don't think I'm the only one who has made this update and is running the Apple Mail.app.

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Hardware Overview:

Model Name: iMac

Model Identifier: iMac11,3

Processor Name: Intel Core i3

Processor Speed: 3.2 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 4 MB

Memory: 4 GB

Processor Interconnect Speed: 5.86 GT/s

Boot ROM Version: IM112.0057.B00

Posted on Feb 25, 2014 10:19 PM

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Answer 1

mende1

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Feb 25, 2014 10:21 PM in response to jannx

That was a known issue. The Mail version for Mac OS X 10.6.8 is Mail 4.6, so after installing that security update, you cannot use Mail 4.5 anymore.

To fix it, follow the steps of this site > http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4424?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

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Answer 2

Klaus1

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Feb 26, 2014 12:48 AM in response to jannx

Mac OS X v10.6: Mail.app won’t open, or "You can't use this version of Mail…" alert after installing Security Update 2012-004:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4424?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Fellow user Grant Bennet-Alder offers this solution:

Some users have reported this problem if the Mail Application has been moved out of the top-level /Applications folder, or duplicated in another location.

When the Security Update is done, the old version of Mail is disabled.

The solution has been to:

1) make certain Mail is in the /Applications folder

2) There is no other copy anywhere else.

3) Once steps 1 and 2 have been done, Manually download and re-apply the Security Update (2012-004) by hand.

Security Update 2012-004 (Snow Leopard)

If the Mail.app has been LOST, it can be re-installed by applying the 10.6.8 version 1.1 combo update. But this update is quite large and it is usually not necessary:

Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1

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