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HTTPMail, Mail.app, and the Junk mail folder Apps
I just started to trust Mail.app and HTTPMail together, as I previously lost all my emails. Now with the new HTTPMail version out, it all works pretty great. The one thing I don't like is the Junk Mail mailbox item. It would place itself in a separate section for my Hotmail account, and not in the default Junk mailbox. Also, the other additional mailboxes were put in a folder called "On My Mac."

So to solve it I went around and looked at ~/Library/Mail. I found that in the HTTPMail account folder there was a Junk.mbox and a Junk Mail.mbox file. Therefore I did the following:
cd ~/Library/Mail/HTTPMail-username@hotmail.com
rm Junk\ Mail.mbox
ln -s Junk.mbox Junk\ Mail.mbox
Replace username with your hotmail username. This makes the Junk Mail.mbox file point at the Junk folder. This will mean that when you run Mail.app, the files will end up in Junk.mbox. However, it thinks that it's in Junk Mail.mbox, so it still places them in the separate folder. However, after you re-run Mail, the junk is in the proper junk mailbox.
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HTTPMail, Mail.app, and the Junk mail folder
Authored by: MacDork on Sep 16, '03 10:31:32AM

Considering Mail.app's junk filter is so much better than Hotmail's, I simply turned OFF hotmail's filter completely, and let Mail handle it.

This works rather nicely for me and creates very few false positives.



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Little Typo
Authored by: dnsstaiger on Sep 16, '03 12:34:51PM

I guess there is a little typo in the submitted hint: because Junk Mail is a Folder, one has to write

rm -r Junk\ Mail.mbox

on line 2



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Another Little Typo
Authored by: Brock Lee on Sep 16, '03 01:10:58PM

Except that backslash is necessary!!! So it should be:

rm -r Junk\ Mail.mbox

Note: this comment is based on the orignal comment; I don't use HTTPMail and don't know the actual names that it uses. But if a space is in a file or folder name, it has to be quoted somehow, and one way is to precede it with a backslash.



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Another Little Typo
Authored by: Bobson on Sep 16, '03 01:58:31PM
Choose between:
rm -r "Junk Mail.mbox" or
rm -r Junk\ Mail.mbox

Both work, but you have to have either the quotes or the 's. Otherwise, you're telling it to delete a folder called "Junk" and a folder called "Mail.mbox"

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Another Little Typo
Authored by: Bobson on Sep 16, '03 01:59:49PM

Er, that's supposed to be 's

Apparently, \ gets removed when displayed...



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HTTPMail, Mail.app, and the Junk mail folder
Authored by: dogman69 on Sep 17, '03 01:30:09AM

JUST USE THE INSTALLER THAT IS ON SOURCEFORGE ALONG WITH HTTPMAIL. WHEN I SET UP I GET JUNK MAIL AND AY FOLDER I ADDED! DAMN! NO NEED FOR TERMINAL CODE!



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