Missing sent, drafts folders in IMAP

[Brian Shaughnessy]

When I setup an IMAP account in Outlook XP, the only default folder provided
is the inbox -- I'm missing the drafts and sent folder. When I send things
or save as a draft, it uses the local personal folders.
The sent and drafts folder load correctly using Outlook Express.
Any ideas?
-Brian

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

This is one of the big complaints about Outlook's IMAP support. You can
move sent items to your IMAP server using a rule, but you'll have to move
drafts manually at this point.

 

[Brian Shaughnessy]

So Outlook simply doesn't support a sent and drafts folder in IMAP? That's
lame.
-Brian

 

[Brian Shaughnessy]

Under Internet email settings, more settings, advanced tab, there's a text
box entitled: root folder path. I can't seem to find any documentation on
it, but thought it might have something to do with identifying the draft and
sent locations. any ideas?
-Brian

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

I don't know what that's for, but I *do* know that it won't deal with the
Sent Items and Draft folders. Outlook simply doesn't support those in IMAP
at present.

 

[Brian Shaughnessy]

Can you help me out on the rules solution to the sent items folder (that's
the more important of the two for my purposes). I've set up a rule that
moves a copy of all emails sent to the sent items IMAP folder. But when it
moves the copy to that folder, it considers it unread, and so both the email
and the sent items folder is bolded. It's not a real big deal, but kind of
annoying.
-Brian

 

[Brian Tillman]

Under Internet email settings, more settings, advanced tab, there's a
text box entitled: root folder path.

If your IMAP server message store is not located in the root of your server
account, this field allows you to tell Outlook in which directory to look
for the message store. Usually, you shouldn't have to specify anything.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

I don't know of any way to do this. The problem is that pushing the message
up to the IMAP server results in a new message on the server, which the
server then flags as unread.