No problem, it bugged me for awhile as well, which is why I wrote this up in the first place.

As for trash, I think by default it uses a folder named Trash.

I came across the same problem; after years of problem-free use the file system of my server that runs Courier IMAP filled up. After cleaning up the partition and restarting imapd, the messages in my Inbox don’t show anymore. However, all subfolders of the Inbox DO show up and are updated. Strangely enough, even the unread count is being updated in the Inbox — but neither old nor new messages appear in the message list.

I’ve tried to completely remove the IMAP account from the Mail.app prefs as well as wiped out ~/Library/Mail/IMAP-my-account to no avail; hence I suspect that the problem might be on the server side. But then Thunderbird shows all the messages in the same Inbox correctly… I’m puzzled.

Did you by any chance solve this mystery?

Thanks for any hint,

Peter

I picked up this hint from a PDF I found while looking for how to set up delegates, this is probably what you are looking for: TO disable public folder syncing:
1. quit mail.app
2. go to your Library/Mail/ folder, look in the exchange box there, and find the Public Folders folder.
3. Do get info (cmd-i)
4. set permissions to “No access”.
5. next time you start up mail, you’ll see the public folders still, but they won’t have any content, and won’t sync.

Now…

If anyone knows how to read a delegate account in Mail, or how to set up 2 exchange accounts (I can create one, but after that, only choic e is IMAP or POP), or how to get the stupid calendar link to actually point to our web exchange server that I specified in the prefs, instead of to the incoming exchange server, I’d be a happy man.

Micah

That said, if anyone knows how I can disable the @#$@# public folders from showing up / being sync’d, it’d be great. It’s such a pain to watch it sync some 100k emails in there when I have no desire to read ‘em.

KellyF