Adding a Gmail IMAP account to Apple Mail had the unwanted side effect of moving the top-level mailboxes for my primary IMAP account (formerly a peers of Inbox, Drafts, Sent, et.al.) into a new mailbox folder corresponding to that account. And the Gmail account mailbox uses a similar top-level folder, which I couldn't make appear as a subfolder of the Inbox by trying different IMAP Path Prefix settings. Hopefully there will be a way to eventually use the previous folder layout that none of my other non-Gmail IMAP accounts disrupted.


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Common IMAP servers actually have folders as children of the INBOX folder and these seem to display most logically in Mail.app. Unfortunately Gmails folders (tags) are at the same level as the INBOX and hence display in this less than ideal way. I too have tried experimented with Path Prefixes to no avail - this is a deal breaker for me.

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Agreed. I think I figured out how to get this working though. When creating a new folder, prepend "INBOX/" to it to create the folder underneath your Inbox. E.g. INBOX/foo. This will make Gmail's IMAP just like more like what we're used to. Through the gmail web interface, you will see a corresponding new label appear, so you could probably create it through either interface. Tip: I had to quit and restart Mail to get it to notice the first one I created.

Even though this gets Mail.app to put the little triangle next to your inbox, you still can't seem to drag folders directly under your Inbox. You could create all your folders manually, or I found you can drag folders under any new folders you create. So I just created a folder called INBOX/folders, and then dragged all my folders under that.

Hope this helps anybody, this was driving me crazy too.


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