mail imap in leopard mail- auto-delete spam?

[iansilv]

Is it possible to set leopard to just automatically delete any spam that goes to my gmail spam folder? I am not interested in bi-racial grandmas selling viagra and mortages. :)

[nowaycomputer]

I'm also looking for something like this, or even - is it possible to 'not-sync' just the spam folder? Gmail's spam filter works pretty much perfectly for me.

[gunpowda]

I would love to know how to do this.

I use gmail and imap, and on the whole searching messages is great. But Gmail's spam folder is synced, and these often show up in results.

– I don't want to enable Mail's built-in junk filter, because Gmail's is fine, and Apple's gives me lots of false positives.

– I can't seem to find a way not to sync the imap spam folder, to hide it, or to automatically delete the messages in it periodically. Can anyone help?

[gunpowda]

And, after a LOT of googling, here is the solution - hide the folder in Spotlight:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2006010706415478