IMAP 'special folders'

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I currently run Outlook 2003 (free-standing, not Exchange Server connected) whose IMAP implementation apparently does not support storing Sent, Trash, Spam or Deleted Items in IMAP folders - only the Inbox.
Could someone pls clarify which IMAP special folders Outlook 2007 supports for storage?.
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I currently run Outlook 2003 (free-standing, not Exchange Server connected)
whose IMAP plementation apparently does not support storing Sent, Trash, Spam
or Deleted Items in IMAP folders - only the Inbox.
Could someone pls clarify which IMAP special folders Outlook 2007 supports
for storage?.
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IMAP in Outlook 2003 doesn't have a Sent Items folder, but you can create one
and set up a rule to populate it. IMAP protocols do not use Deleted Items.
Items you delete stay in the folder that contain them but get marked for
deletion. You'll see this signified by the message displaying with an
overstrike through the subject. If you see a "Spam" folder, that's a folder
on the IMAP server and Outlook shows it to you, but it has no special
significance. Outlook does support the "Junk E-mail" folder, just as for
other account types. If you see a "Trash" folder, that, too, has no special
significance to Outlook. It is used only when you access your mailbox via a
web browser. Other non-mail folders also do not appear in IMAP folder sets
because IMAP is a mail-only protocol.
 
Tnks Brian. The background to the question is that I am comparing the IMAP
and IMAP-related features available in Outlook 2007 versus WLM. As both an
Outlook 2003 (which as you say has no special folders) user and as a WLM
(which supports Sent, Drafts, Deleted and Junk) user and as a former Outlook
Express (which supports Sent and Drafts) user, I see that the ability for a
small workgroup which is handling mail as a pool to see what emails have been
replied to (i.e. to see a shared Sent box) by other members of the group is
useful.
Intriguingly, WLM appears to have introduced something I have never seen in
an IMAP implementation before: a 'Store Deleted Items on IMAP server' option
as an alternative both to storing deleted (but not purged) items in a local
Deleted items folder and to keeping the deleted items in the Inbox with
strikethroughs. (This WLM option is not an option I have a use for!).
 
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