Replacing Broken Mail Pgm

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I'm fairly new to the modern mac and have a question. My mother's intel mac mini Mail started to have mail sending failures after working just fine for about
5 years. I tried all sorts of changes and even deleted the account and manually
restored the setting with no luck. I then noticed she had a copy of Entourage
and used the same settings as Mail to get Entourage going. This led me to conclude the Mail pgm was broken. (yes I did run Disk Utility to repair permissions).

She is 91 and just can't handle the visual changes between Mail and Entorage
so I need to Nuke the Mail and replace it with a fresh copy. She is using Snow Leopard and I wondering how to best proceed ? :\
 
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If you have Snow Leopard I would back up her hard drive and upgrade to Snow Leopard. Other then that I have no idea. Sorry.
 
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Have a look at Pacifist, you can use it to reinstall only the Mail application from your SL install disc.
 

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