Organising Mail folders

In Mail on my MBP, my email folders are organised by type. So I have:

Inbox

Email account 1

Email account 2

Email account 3 etc

Sent

Email account 1

Email account 2

Email account 3 etc

and so on,

Then I have

Email Account 1

Folder 1

Folder 2

Folder 3 etc


This to me is logical and how I would wish it


However on my iMac, I have

Email Account 1 Inbox

Folder 1

Folder 2

Sent

Junk etc


and for the life of me I cannot figure out how to change the iMac to match the MBP. I am clearly having a senior moment, but could some kind person point me in the right direction.


Thanks

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), 512GB flash storage; 8GB RAM

Posted on Oct 18, 2016 2:19 AM

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Oct 18, 2016 8:21 AM in response to Alex in devon

What type of account is it? iCloud, Gmail, internet provider account, etc?


It sounds like something is misconfigured on the iMac. If it is an IMAP-type account where all the messages are stored on the server (which it looks like from your description), you can just remove that account on the iMac, then re-add the account. It should configure it correctly to show everything like your other Mac.

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