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you can also use the defaults command
Authored by: piers on Apr 16, '02 10:03:03PM
the defaults command (see "man defaults") provides a command line interface to reading and editing the defaults database. Depending on the type of changes and on the size of the preference file, this may or may not be easier than editing the preference file by hand.

Regarding the hint at hand, the appropriate commands would be:

defaults read com.apple.mail ActiveUniViewers

and
defaults write com.apple.mail ActiveUniViewers

'("~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/WhateverNameYouLike.mbox")'


I formatted the second command on two lines for easier reading, you should enter this on a single line, separated by a space

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