10.4: Hide certain Mail mailboxes from Spotlight
Jan 10, '06 06:18:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
I don't know about you, but I quite like to keep all my old email archived, rather than just trashing it. However, since most of it is Paypal receipts and forum-joining notifications, having these messages pop-up whenever I search for mail using Spotlight (whether it be via Command-Space or using Mail.app's own search box) can be very annoying.
To hide a mailox from Spotlight (and ergo Mail.app's own search), simply go to the Spotlight panel in System Preferences, click on the Privacy tab, and add a folder. Then navigate to your user's Library -> Mail -> Mailboxes folder, and select the mailbox you want hidden (/Archive in my case) and you're done.
I know, this is a simple hint, but not everyone might have thought of it.