I have started and quit my laptap several times in the last few days but today, the email feature is working again - who knows why or how! I did go back to searched the logs for the 2-days when it was happening and saw a listing in the "Console Messages" that I presume had something to do with this -
1/27/10 11:34:05 AM com.apple.launchd[75] ([0x0-0x17017].com.camerabits.PhotoMechanic[179]) Exited: Terminated
1/27/10 11:39:10 AM com.apple.launchd[75] ([0x0-0x33033].com.camerabits.PhotoMechanic[343]) Exited: Terminated
1/27/10 11:43:21 AM com.apple.launchd[75] ([0x0-0x36036].com.camerabits.PhotoMechanic[353]) Exited: Terminated
1/27/10 12:00:32 PM com.apple.launchd[75] ([0x0-0x4a04a].com.camerabits.PhotoMechanic[428]) Exited: Terminated
1/27/10 12:31:30 PM com.apple.launchd[73] ([0x0-0x1a01a].com.camerabits.PhotoMechanic[182]) Exited: Terminated
I also searched for "Mail.app" and did not come up with anything. As far as I could tell, it had no effect on mail prior to it locking up Mechanic.
Thanks, Michael