Sent, Drafts, Junk and Trash folders aren't showing up for e-mail address

I have 3 e-mails set up through mail. Two are gmail.com accounts and work fine. The third is an e-mail from my website that I have hosted through hostmonster.com. All three e-mails are IMAP but my third e-mail doesn't have any Sent, Drafts, Junk or Trash folders showing up. All of these settings are active and set to "store XXXX messages on server" in "preferences > mailbox behaviors". If I try to save a message as a draft in this e-mail I get a error message saying "The message could not be saved."

Why aren't these folders showing up or working for this e-mail?

Macbook Pro 15", Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Sep 30, 2009 2:34 PM

20 replies

Nov 21, 2009 1:40 PM in response to Stefan Boyland

By the way these normal looking icons for DRAFT, SENT and TRASH do NOT work...so if I sent an email from my 3rd email address, I have no record in the SENT FOLDER which again is a normal looking sent folder underneath the heading of my INBOX. And if I receive an email on this 3rd account (that does work), and I delete it, it does NOT go to this TRASH FOLDER that is again a FOLDER icon underneath my INBOX.

My other 2 email accounts work perfectly. I am now wondering is this an Apple Mail issue or a DREAMHOST issue with the email account.

Thanks-

BDAqua

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Oct 12, 2009 9:51 PM in response to jb

Hi jb, is tat Trash folder Created "On my Mac" or in that account?

BDAqua

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Oct 13, 2009 3:46 PM in response to jb

Have you tried dragging that Trash folder to the location you want?

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Oct 13, 2009 9:48 PM in response to BDAqua

Yes. Tried. But it won't go there. It just pops back to where you see it now. I CAN move it inside the Import folder, but it's still not the official Mail Trash mailbox.

BDAqua

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Oct 18, 2009 11:22 AM in response to jb

Interesting, but no ideas here as to why!?

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Sent, Drafts, Junk and Trash folders aren't showing up for e-mail address