Remove Gmail's All Mail folder in Mail from Spotlight index

Feb 15, '08 07:30:02AM

Contributed by: rhowell

A simple hint. Although we cannot remove the duplicate messages stored in the All Mail folder of a Gmail IMAP account in Mail.app -- we can't even unsubscribe from the folder -- at least we can add the folder to Spotlight's list of places not to index. Then searching will no longer show duplicate emails.

In System Preferences » Spotlight » Privacy, add each user's All Mail Gmail folder, usually found here:

~/Library » Mail » IMAP-username@imap.gmail.com » [Gmail] » All Mail.imapmbox

Not perfect, but no longer finding duplicates is nice.

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