Create a colorless top-level Mail folder

Feb 11, '04 09:35:00AM

Contributed by: encro

If you create a new mailbox with a name such as: Mac OS X Hints/System, Mail will create a parent mailbox named Mac OS X Hints and a sub-mailbox called System. The newly created parent mailbox will also be coloured white, and it functions differently than the usual blue colour. First, you can only drag mail into a sub-mailbox and not into the white parent. And second, white folders cannot be selected when using Rules.

[robg adds: Mac Help has some information on this, though on my machine, it's not entirely true:

Mailboxes that contain both messages and other mailboxes are blue. Mailboxes that contain only other mailboxes are colorless.
On my machine, I have a top-level blue folder that contains only sub-folders. I also have a top-level white folder that only contains sub-folders, so I'm not sure why they're appearing differently. This hint, however, does explain how to create a white (colorless) folder, if you so desire...]

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Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2004020506354295