Q: What are These Mystery Mailboxes?
I recently bought a new iMac with El Capitan loaded on it, so I had to create my emails in Mail. Setting them up was not a problem but I noticed after I created them that some folders were automatically created below them that correspond to each email address. I created the "On My Mac" folder but I was wondering if anyone could explain what the other ones are. Here's a screenshot (I blurred out my email addresses):
I'm curious because there are already Junk folders for each of my accounts.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Lloyd
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), 8GB RAM, 4GHz i7
Posted on Sep 12, 2016 1:18 PM
Those are the server folders for those things. Mail wasn't able to properly map them to the unified mailboxes.
For each, select it and choose "Use this mailbox for > " and choose the appropriate mailbox type.
For instance, the spam (and JunkMail) folder should be mapped to Junk. SentMail is the Sent folder.
I have no idea what Trial is, but possibly something the email provider wants to offer to you.
Posted on Sep 12, 2016 9:50 PM


