Can't save messages, can't find trash folder

I've just tried switching from using webmail (IMP) to using Mail. I can send and receive email, but I'm having a couple of problems.
First, Mail won't let me save my messages (i.e. those which I'm sending) - I just get the uninformative "Error: Message cannot be saved".
Second, although I can delete messages, I can't find my trash folder.
Any ideas?
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Hi Ernie, thanks for your response.
It’s an IMAP account. I’ve just tried Repair Permissions – that hasn’t done the trick. And I haven’t moved the Mail folder around, at least not to my knowledge. It’s still in the Library.
In my IMAP account folder in the Finder, I have the three following folders:
(1) INBOX.imapmbox
(2) INBOX
(3) shared
And in the second of these, INBOX, I have:
(4) sent-mail.imapmbox
(5) drafts.imapmbox
(6) imhoprefs.imapmbox
Perhaps I should also tell you how the left-hand navigation bar on Mail looks:
I have three main folders: ‘Inbox’, ‘Sent’ and ‘shared’. ‘Inbox’ contains, as subfolders, the following:
‘drafts’
(ii) ‘imhoprefs’
(iii) ‘sent-mail’
Tim

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