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Remove Gmail's All Mail folder in Mail from Spotlight index
Authored by: ja on Fri, Feb 15 2008 at 12:49PM PST

I used a similar technique to keep my spam folder on an imap account from being synced with Mail.app.

Instead of creating an empty file I just link the mailbox to /dev/null

Follow the directions in the parent comment and then instead of

touch "All Mail.imapmbox"

use

ln -s /dev/null "All Mail.imapmbox"

Or, more accurately in my case:

ln -s /dev/null spam.imapmbox

Remove Gmail's All Mail folder in Mail from Spotlight index
Authored by: poppap on Sat, Mar 8 2008 at 1:57AM PST

Instead of touch or ln -s to /dev/null
I copied the emptied Trash folder (Empty it in Mail.app first) as All Mail and chmod it to be read only.

first,


rm -fr "All Mail.imapmbox"

or back it up
then


cp -R Trash.imapmbox "All Mail.imapmbox"

chmod -R 500 "All Mail.imapmbox"

This prevent Mail.app from crashing when performing the search.

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