Creating new mailbox

I have created many mailboxes in the past, so I was surprised this morning when my attempt to create another one created what the Mail program chooses to call a "Child". What happened was that the first time I clicked to create the new Mailbox, nothing happened, or so I thought at the time. It was only when I tried again that I noticed that the Mailbox I wanted had been created, but inside of an existing one, and that the new Mailbox was called a "child" of the already existing one.
There may come a time when I would like to use this feature, but not now. How can I make sure that when I create a new Mailbox, it will stand alone and not as the "child" of another Mailbox?
How can I delete the "child" that Mailbox just created?

Hi Niku
You can actually drag your mailboxes - and their children (subfolders) - to reorder them. Note, though, that Mail will automatically sort mailboxes alphabetically. So, if you have a subfolder called "Accounts", you'll only be able to drop it around the top of your folder list. Likewise, "Xylophone Lessons" will go towards the end.
When you drag the folder around, you'll see a black line with a small circle at its left side. This is slightly difficult to explain, but to drop the folder at the "root" level (ie, so that it isn't a subfolder), you'll want the line to be as long as possible, so that the small circle is aligned just to the right of the disclosure triangles next to your other root folders (eg, Inbox, Sent, Junk).
Now, to make sure that when you create a new mailbox, it's at the root level, make sure you're clicked on one of your "fixed" folders (I recommend Inbox for simplicity). Then go to Mailbox - New Mailbox, and you'll see, at the top of the naming window,
"Enter name for new local mailbox to be created at the top level in the mailboxes list."
If you had selected one of your user-created folders, and then clicked New Mailbox, you'd see:
Enter new mailbox name to be created as a child of the local mailbox “Your Folder”.
Hope that helps!
Matt

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In terms of what's causing it, the clue is in the stack above.
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Good evening!
I'm new to Groupwise integration via SOAP and was looking through the web service API at this page.
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>>> On Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 12:36 PM,
Hubbovich<[email protected]> wrote:
> Good evening!
>
>
> I'm new to Groupwise integration via SOAP and was looking through the
> web service API at 'this page'
>
(http://developer.novell.com/document...ex.html?page=/
> documentation/gwsoap/gwwbserv/data/b8cg4px.html).
>
> Unfortunately, I was not able to find a method that would allow me to
> create a new mailbox. Do you have any info if this is even doable via
> the Groupwise web services? If so, what method should I be using?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Hubbovich

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With .Mac you get 10GB of storage, you can divide that between email, and web/iDisk space by logging in and going to your account settings on www.mac.com.
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Thanks again for all the patient counsel around this issue. Here's the latest, in case anybody's still paying attention.
I've been able to convert my primary e-mail account from POP to IMAP, so that it is now fully syncable with my iPhone. However, I'm still a long way from migrating my entire e-mail operation to Mac Mail.
That is actually something that I would like to do. But I'm having a hard time now figuring out what exactly will be my "e-mail strategy" going forward.
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I do not need access to 98% of what I have stored in Eudora from more than one client. So it really doesn't need to be part of my IMAP scenario.
What I do need is a way to clear from the server e-mail that I want to keep locally. How do I do that if everything in an IMAP client is duplicated on the server?
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Welcome to Apple Discussions.
"Repair Disk Permissions" from Disk Utility may help you.
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Hopefully, I do not need to reinstall Exchange 2010. How do I go about adding
the child domain?

Did you domain prep the child domain?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125224(v=exchg.141).aspx
From a Command Prompt window, run one of the following commands:
Run setup /PrepareDomain or setup /pd to prepare the local domain. You don't need to run this in the domain where you ran Step 3. Running
setup /PrepareAD prepares the local domain.
Run setup /PrepareDomain:<FQDN of domain you want to prepare> to prepare a specific domain.
Run setup /PrepareAllDomains or setup /pad to prepare all domains in your organization.
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Cannot create new mailbox folder on my mac.

I am trying to add a new mailbox folder and gives me error cannot create on your mac? What is this all about?

Apparently, Mail has a bug that causes ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes to sometimes be a file instead of a folder, and that prevents Mail from creating any mailboxes there.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all the filesystem issues, if any, proceed as follows:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/.
3. Locate Mailboxes. If it’s a file instead of a folder, move it to the Trash.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder.

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