HTTPMail, Mail.app, and the Junk mail folder

Sep 16, '03 09:40:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

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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