Questions about sent mails and sent items.

... I am not sure what I am trying to accomplish.

Here am I guessing at what you're trying to accomplish; if you're not sure, we're both stymied!

Still, this makes sense to me: you have one set of 'special' folders for drafts, sent messages, junk mail and trash. They happen to have different names depending on where you look at them, but it's pretty obvious which is which. Using IMAP, the contents of these folders will normally synchronize, i.e. you see the same folder contents however you access the folder - in Windows Live Mail, at charter.net or even on your smart phone. Messages you delete are deleted everywhere, regardless of where you deleted them from. Every message you send is in the folder for sent mail regardless of where you happened to be when you sent it.

Every IMAP server is different, and I've no experience of Charter IMAP. Still, if you set things up the way I suggested in my last post, you're bound to be quite close to achieving what I think you're trying to achieve.

Thank you for taking the time to help. I can follow your directions, but why? I am not sure what I am tryig to accomplish.

I think that first I need to determine what the ideal set up is. I think it is that if I send emails or delete them FROM Windows Live Mail, I DO NOT want them to go to my webmail. (Thanks for clarifying that). If I delete, I simply want the emails to disappear totally, and not have to go into webmail to delete them yet a second time. Does that make sense? Is there anything I am not thinking of. So, how do I make that happen? Is that what your directions do?

If you store special folders on the IMAP server, then you'll see exactly the same both in Windows Live Mail and at charter.net (that's webmail, by the way). So anything you send from charter.net will appear in Windows Live Mail and vice versa. Anything you delete in Windows Live Mail will also be deleted at charter.net and vice versa.

1. Click on the account name in the folder pane to select it.
2. Press Alt-S F to open the Show/hide IMAP folders dialogue and click Reset List.

Note down the names of the folders available. Close the dialogue. 3. Right-click on the account name in the folder pane and select Properties.

On the IMAP tab you took a screenshot of, type the special folder names into the boxes. Close the dialogue. 4. Press Ctrl-Shift-O for Options. On the Advanced tab, select Use the 'Deleted Items' folder for IMAP accounts. 5. Compose a new test message and send it to yourself. Where does it end up (you should see two copies of it)? And at charter.net?

If I UNCLICK Store special folders on IMAP server, will my sent emails and my deleted emails in Windows Live Mail  STOP going into my similar folders in charter.net? If I can do that, then I will not have to keep going into charter.net to delete everything. Thanks.