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'Subscribe' to IMAP folders in Mail.app with a proxy
Authored by: jonny5 on Apr 16, '04 10:58:55AM

There's a MUCH easier way to do this, no proxy needed.

In Mail.app, go to:

Preferences... > Accounts > YOUR IMAP ACCOUNT

Then, in the box "IMAP Path Prefix", enter the name of your mail folder -- "mail" or whatever, you don't need $HOME, or ~ or anything like that.

I'm not sure, but I think if you want to "subscribe" to other folders, you may need to add an additional account with the same imap server settings in Mail.app, and change the "IMAP Path Prefix" value

-Jon



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'Subscribe' to IMAP folders in Mail.app with a proxy
Authored by: ars on Apr 17, '04 05:24:10PM

Your set-up might be different, but in my case when I specify:
~/Mail
as the path to my IMAP inbox, I get my inbox plus ALL my other mailfolders. The point of the above script is to get only a selection of those other mailboxes. I want some of those other mailboxes such as the Send folder, but I do not want all my other mail folders. Mail will try to synchronize with all of these other mailfolders every time it connects.
Most Imap clients let you subscribe or unsubscribe to these other IMAP folders, but not Apple's Mail. Moreover if you have no local mailbox Mail will list all of these folders separately and does not let you collapse them. I discovered by accident that if you create a local mailbox, that it will put all of those extra mailfolders in one mailbox, which you can collapse.



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'Subscribe' to IMAP folders in Mail.app with a proxy
Authored by: dschwar1 on May 04, '04 08:21:11PM

Very bizzarely, I managed to figure something out on my own instead of by reading something on Mac OS X Hints. No need to setup another account. If you want to 'subscribe' to multiple files in your IMAP folder, under IMAP path prefix separate the folders you wish to subscribe to with a semicolon. I.e.

/home/panther/dschwar1/.mail;/home/panther/dschwar1/mail/sent-mail

Oddly this worked for me and now I can subscribe to only 2 folders.



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