Commodore
Senior Member
- Outlook version
- Outlook 2021 64 bit
- Email Account
- IMAP
I've noticed that some of my IMAP accounts have similar folders within their respective folder structure (e.g. Junk as well as Junk-Email, Trash as well as Deleted Items...). Does Outlook (2010), as well as other IMAP mail or webmail clients, add its own "system" folders to the structure?
I know about setting the root folder path, but that's not the case here (this would actually in my case apply only to my own domain's mail account, as it has mail folders as subfolders of Inbox -- yet it's the only account where the folders are actually consistently the same when viewed in Outlook, webmail (Horde), or iOS mail client).
One example - me.com email... Accessing with webmail iCloud client, I see these folders:
Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Archive, Trash, Junk, and (section labeled "Folders") Deleted Items, Junk E-Mail.
Outlook displays: Inbox, Deleted Items, Archive, Deleted Messages, Drafts, Junk, Junk E-Mail, Notes (this one is also on iPad/iPhone mail client), Sent Messages.
At first sight it looks like Deleted Items and Junk E-Mail were created by Outlook (hence, under "folders" in iCloud). And "Trash" in iCloud is probably "Deleted Messages" in Outlook.
GMX is even more inconsistent:
-webmail: Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Trash, Archived, Junk-Email
-Outlook: Inbox, Trash, Archived, Drafts, Junk-Email, OUTBOX (all caps...), Sent, Spam
Is there any safe way to clean these up to make it more consistent?
I know about setting the root folder path, but that's not the case here (this would actually in my case apply only to my own domain's mail account, as it has mail folders as subfolders of Inbox -- yet it's the only account where the folders are actually consistently the same when viewed in Outlook, webmail (Horde), or iOS mail client).
One example - me.com email... Accessing with webmail iCloud client, I see these folders:
Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Archive, Trash, Junk, and (section labeled "Folders") Deleted Items, Junk E-Mail.
Outlook displays: Inbox, Deleted Items, Archive, Deleted Messages, Drafts, Junk, Junk E-Mail, Notes (this one is also on iPad/iPhone mail client), Sent Messages.
At first sight it looks like Deleted Items and Junk E-Mail were created by Outlook (hence, under "folders" in iCloud). And "Trash" in iCloud is probably "Deleted Messages" in Outlook.
GMX is even more inconsistent:
-webmail: Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Trash, Archived, Junk-Email
-Outlook: Inbox, Trash, Archived, Drafts, Junk-Email, OUTBOX (all caps...), Sent, Spam
Is there any safe way to clean these up to make it more consistent?