Remove VIP mail box from sidebar in Mac Mail
I found what worked was:
- Remove all VIP contacts
- Close Mail
- Reboot the machine
Upon reopening Mail, the VIP section in the sidebar is now gone.
UPDATE - At the time of writing this initial post i was running OSX 10.9.
Got this working in OS X 10.10, Yosemite:
- Close Mail.app.
- Go to
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/. - Edit
VIPSenders.plistand remove all the senders. - Save the file.
- Select the file and press Command + i to see information about the file.
- Check Locked under general info.
- Reopen Mail.app.