Hide select IMAP folders

Hey everyone. My school uses an IMAP server, and unfortunately there are folders that are tied to my account that are not used for anything but profile storage. I can't delete them. Is there anyway to hide folders that I choose rather than just hiding everything? With Entourage, I can subscribe to only the folders I want to see. Is there a way to unsubscribe folders in Mail? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Well, this is a hack, rather than "not a perfect solution" .
For one thing, Mail may need something else to be put in the IMAP Path Prefix field for it to work properly with some IMAP servers.
Another problem is that you may want to access this account with other software on a different computer, be it webmail or another mail client. If that other software assumes any of the standard mailboxes (e.g. Sent) should be somewhere else other than the folder you created, then this arrangement just won't work.
Frankly, I wouldn't consider this an acceptable solution, and I'd rather just use another mail client such as Thunderbird for this, but maybe it's just me. At any rate, you're right that I was wrong when I said "there is nothing you can do about it". There is clearly something you can do about it .
Regards.

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Hi,
I have a message rule set up through the webmail view
that moves mail with [-SPAM-] in the subject (picked
up by our edge filters) into the Junk Email
folder. This rule works fine, I can view the
messages in there through webamil, if i log in over
IMAP using thunderbird or whatever I can see the
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visible, but all the mail that is there already is
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Sent
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