Creating a (This computer only) folder within an IMAP account directory

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Hello,

I have this IMAP account from an academic domain. There, the space given for me to use is limited, and I've been using Outlook 2013 to manage the e-mails I get from there, so...

I, for example, also have a Google Mail account set up on Outlook 2013 with IMAP, where I see this folder Sync Issues which is followed by (This computer only) on its label. This folder does not exist in Google servers, at least I cannot see it anywhere when I access my account through mail.google.com.

I was wondering, if it is possible in any way to manually create such a folder. What I'm trying to ask is:

Is it possible for one to create a (This computer only) folder, which does not get synced back to the servers of my mail service and remains as a directory directly within the data file of that specific account?

Switching to POP is not an option. I want the mails to get actually deleted on the server whenever I delete them on the Inbox I see on Outlook 2013, as well as get marked as read whenever they get marked as read on Outlook 2013. I just want this one additional folder which will be excluded from sync, i.e. a (This computer only) folder.

I will be using that as an archive. If nobody can offer any help, I will be creating a new data file to store my archived e-mails over there. Then another whenever I need to do so for another account... And the archives will also be located under separate roots than the account they were generated from... That's not good, but whatever.
 
Yes and no... you can create folders in a separate pst to keep mail off the server, but you can't create a folder in the imap data file and mark it for the computer only. Even if you could create it in the imap data file, I don't recommend it - it's too easy to lose the data file and everything in it. I would not use the calendar and contacts folders either - they should be in a separate pst - that can be the same one you use for storing mail you want removed from the server.
 
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