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Mail.app: white mailbox vs. blue mailbox
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philm
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Nov 10, 2006, 04:40 AM
 
I need to rebuild my mailboxes in Mal.app as the search facility is not correctly finding many e-mails. I notice that some of the mailboxes in my list of folders are white and others blue. For some reason, if you select a white mailbox it is not possible to rebuild the sub-mailboxes within it, but you can do so on the blue mailboxes. Any thoughts on this?
     
chrismear
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Nov 10, 2006, 08:59 AM
 
I think I've seen this before with IMAP folders that "aren't really folders" or something like that. Are these folders on an IMAP server?
     
JKT
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Nov 10, 2006, 09:03 AM
 
Personally, I'd never heard of or seen them before yesterday, but Macworld had an article on them: Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Blue and white Mail folders explained
     
philm  (op)
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Nov 10, 2006, 09:12 AM
 
How spooky is that? It's all nicely explained in JKT's link to Macworld. Thanks.
     
   
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