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GMail IMAP Spam & Mail.app

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With the amount of spam that I get in my GMail IMAP account, it slows down the rest of the processes with mail.app. Is there a way to make the program get all email BESIDES the spam folder? Basically just not download the spam email? PLEASE help!
 
NOBODY has been able to stop the spam folder from being downloaded!?!?
 
I don't think "not downloading an IMAP folder" is an option in Mail.app. Which is pretty ridiculous, even Windows Mail in Vista allows for this. Apple really should add the option. I just want it so it doesn't download the (even larger) "All Mail" folder.
 
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Wow... so that's it? No solution. Ouch........ ouch. This will actually turn me away from using Mail.app.
Sad.
 
I reverted back to POP3 because of this, I don't want my email application to download the freakin' spam folder.

Has anyone found a fix for IMAP?
 
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Another one looking for a solution. For the initial IMAP setup, I just deleted all the spam in my Gmail spam folder. But I'd really like Mail to NOT download future spam. Is this a Mail limitation, or a Gmail limitation? I'm assuming Mail, which means it may never get fixed.

If anyone has come up with a solution, I'd love to hear it!
 
I'd like to know too, I guess you could just set gmail to delete spam immediatly, but then if there's the off chance you get something important in your spam it'd be gone. I think I'm going to set it to do that though sence I never even look in my spam folder.
 
auggie2k said:
Does it download your trash too? Because I may have the solution if it doesn't...
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I'm not actually sure. The Gmail account I synced didn't have anything in the trash (it was all in All Mail). I would guess it does, though, since there is a Gmail Trash folder in Mail now.
 
Dimwhit said:
I'm not actually sure. The Gmail account I synced didn't have anything in the trash (it was all in All Mail). I would guess it does, though, since there is a Gmail Trash folder in Mail now.
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Well then just in case, try this for me.

In Gmail, go to Settings > Filters > Create a New Filter.

In the criteria for "Has the Words:" type in "is:spam". Then click next...

Now check the boxes "Skip the Inbox" and "Delete It" and finally click "Create Filter".

Now all of your Spam will miss the Spam Folder itself and go to the Trash. Handy in Gmail itself if the Spam counter annoys the hell out of you :)
 
auggie2k said:
Well then just in case, try this for me.

In Gmail, go to Settings > Filters > Create a New Filter.

In the criteria for "Has the Words:" type in "is:spam". Then click next...

Now check the boxes "Skip the Inbox" and "Delete It" and finally click "Create Filter".

Now all of your Spam will miss the Spam Folder itself and go to the Trash. Handy in Gmail itself if the Spam counter annoys the hell out of you :)
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That's actually a very interesting solution. I'll see if it works.
 
auggie2k said:
Well then just in case, try this for me.

In Gmail, go to Settings > Filters > Create a New Filter.

In the criteria for "Has the Words:" type in "is:spam". Then click next...

Now check the boxes "Skip the Inbox" and "Delete It" and finally click "Create Filter".

Now all of your Spam will miss the Spam Folder itself and go to the Trash. Handy in Gmail itself if the Spam counter annoys the hell out of you :)
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Well it still shows up in my trash folder of my gmail account with mail.app too bad :(
 
techlover828 said:
Well it still shows up in my trash folder of my gmail account with mail.app too bad :(
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I had the same troubles with Gmail and Spam/Trash. I ended up just forwarding my inbox to my .Mac (er, MobileMe) account and now I just use that for my Mac/iPhone mail. Same with my Yahoo and school accounts.

Essentially, Gmail is my public address/filter and my Apple account is my single access point. Works pretty good.
 
I know this thread is a little old, but it's one of the first that comes up in a google search. For those who stumble upon this thread in the future, this is how you remove the spam folder from gmail IMAP (it works, I've tested it)

From: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080915174303761

Are you bugged by the [All Mails] folder in your Gmail IMAP account showing up in Mail.App? Maybe because it shows duplicates for every search your make, or maybe because the "unread" count is doubled? Well, me too!

To my delight, I just stumbled on the Gmail Labs feature called Advanced IMAP Controls. Among other things, this feature lets selectively enable or disable labels when using IMAP to access your Gmail account -- so yes, you can get ride of the annoying [All Mails] folder (and other Gmail folders, if you wish) from Mail.App.

To access the Gmail Labs options, go to your Gmail Settings page on the Gmail website; on that page, Labs is the last tab on the right. Advanced IMAP Controls appears a fair ways down the page; enable it, then click the Save Changes button. Now click on the Labels tab, and uncheck the Show in IMAP box next to each label that you'd like to keep out of Mail.app.

Finally! It's incredible how a small thing like this can make your life easier. I hope Google will push it to the main product, as it's really useful.
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