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Create a colorless top-level Mail folder
Authored by: jtratcliff on Feb 11, '04 04:31:42PM

not a problem.... First, quit Mail.app, then from your terminal of choice,
just create an mbox directory for your target mail folder.... e.g., for a
"white" folder named foo

% cd ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes
% ls -al foo
drwxrwxrwx 12 You staff 408 1 Dec 12:35 foo
% mkdir foo.mbox


You might also want to change the permissions:

% chmod go-rwx foo.mbox
% ls -al foo.mbox
drwx------ 6 You staff 204 11 Feb 13:15 foo.mbox

Now re-launch Mail and you should be good to go... It takes a second for
Mail.app to recognize the new mbox, but after a brief pause, the icons
should change from white to blue.



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