[Dovecot] getting Apple Mail and dovecot/IMAP to co-operate

[Jim Reid]

Hi Timo. Thanks again for your help. I've got things just about  
working as planned. There's one minor irritation however. Users see a  
strange mailbox icon at the top of their list of mailboxes on the  
dovecot server. It's called #mbox and has a > symbol next to it  
indicating that it contains nested mailbox(es). The icon for the  
mailbox not filled in, which is usually how Apple Mail indicates  
there's something wrong with the mailbox. In this case, it's not  
possible to put messages in #mbox. Is there a simple way to make this  
mailbox disappear from the list displayed by the client?

# 1.1.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE amd64
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
syslog_facility: local4
protocols: imaps
listen: *, [::]
ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_max_processes_count: 8
login_max_connections: 32
max_mail_processes: 32
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_debug: yes
mbox_write_locks: fcntl
namespace:
   type: private
   separator: /
   prefix: #mbox/
   location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
   inbox: yes
   hidden: yes
   list: yes
   subscriptions: yes
namespace:
   type: private
   separator: /
   location: maildir:/mail/imap/%u:LAYOUT=fs
   list: yes
   subscriptions: yes
auth default:
   mechanisms: cram-md5
   verbose: yes
   debug: yes
   passdb:
     driver: pam
   passdb:
     driver: passwd-file
     args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-md5
   userdb:
     driver: passwd