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Stop Mail.app from caching too many IMAP folders
Authored by: moritzh on Jun 29, '05 01:26:17PM

Already in 10.3 I replaced the "Public Folders" folder with a symbolic link to /dev/null. This at least prevents useless stuff from the folders to be written to my disk, waste space and get indexed by Spotlight. But still the folders are queried. Also tried your approach with chmod 000 and locking, and seems to do exactly the same thing: No messages are stored, but the folders on the server are still queried. Or that's what I think because if I delete all caches and force Mail to update everything, it initially shows 0 new messages in the public folders, but later ~100'000. Can you confirm? I am using an Exchange Server but I'll try later and set up the account as plain IMAP instead (don't think this will help, but let's see).

I really hate that Mail.app doesn't let you subscribe to/unsubscribe from IMAP folders. Any decent mail program can do that. Already complained several times to Apple about it.



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