Four ways for Mail users to beat Exchange’s public folders
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Florian Beer has posted two tips 
which stop Mail.app syncing Exchange’s public folders.
One of them has been covered on Hawk Wings before, but the other one brings the list of possible work-arounds to four:
- Reorganise your Exchange folder tree. Create a new top-level subfolder and set an IMAP path to match.
- Tweak the settings in Windows Active Directory . If you have administrator rights, you can switch the syncing off at Exchange’s end.
- Perl it out of your life . Lars Eggert has written a Perl script which allows some control over which folders (if any) are synced.
- Lock the local cache. Florian’s second tip explains how to lock your local cache folders so that Exchange can’t sync with them.
Caveat Lector — I have absolutely no experience with Microsoft Exchange Server and no interest in acquiring some.
Tags: Apple Mail, email, exchange server, imap, local cache, mail.app, microsoft, perl, public folders