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Whenever I login to my Mac (running OS X 10.5.8 Leopard), Mail starts up. How do I get it to not start when I login?

It's not in my Login Items in my Accounts preferences, and Open at Login is not checked for the Mail icon on my dock.

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What Login Items do you have setup? It's quite possible you have a program or an AppleScript that requires Mail to be open. – Chealion Oct 5 '09 at 5:05
I only have iTunesHelper and QuickSilver in my Login Items, so I'm guessing neither of them are opening Mail. – Josh Brown Oct 6 '09 at 23:04
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Check ~/Library/StartupItems for a Mail entry. If it's in there, remove it.

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Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't see a StartupItems directory in my Library. – Josh Brown Oct 6 '09 at 23:07
thats because its a file :P – John T Oct 6 '09 at 23:25
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Check System Preferences App, Accounts pane, Login Items. Remove Mail entry.

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Thanks for the suggestion, but as I stated in the original question, Mail is not in the Login Items in my Accounts pane. – Josh Brown Oct 6 '09 at 23:08
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This was happening because I had an iCal alarm set up to email reminders to me. It needed to open Mail to send the email, which happened to be almost every time I logged in to my computer.

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