Apple Mail To Do Mailbox + IMAP

Peter Rukavina

Can someone tell me how to make this annoying dialog box stop popping up in Apple’s Mail.app? It started appearing after the 10.5.2 upgrade.

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Submitted by Peter Rukavina on

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Okay, here’s what I’ve been able to find out.

In the old days, before the Mac OS 10.5.2 update, it was possible to set the “IMAP Path Prefix” in Mail.app to nothing (i.e. blank). The effect of this was to have the given IMAP account’s mail appear as a sub-folder of the main Mail.app inbox. And all was well.

With the 10.5.2 update, although it’s still possible to set the “IMAP Path Prefix” to blank and get the old behaviour, if you do this you get the pop-up dialog I was getting. Over and over and over again.

If you change the “IMAP Path Prefix” to “INBOX” then the dialog stops popping up, but the IMAP account now appears as a sort of “standalone” mailbox in the left-hand sidebar list of folders. Not a problem unless it’s not what you’re used to. Also, I found that changing the “IMAP Path Prefix” to “INBOX” caused Mail.app to crash or hang the first couple of times I tried it. It seems to have to rebuild the entire mailbox with the “IMAP Path Prefix” changes, which also causes a lot of Spotlight re-indexing.

Submitted by Alexander on

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The behaviour is exactly as described in your lst comment.

Have you found a solution to this annoyance yet?
I found a hint involving setting the ToDo Mailbox’s INBOXpath in my Mail plist file, but it has not worked for me.

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