Five imap accounts... On creation sixth one setups differently

This disccusion refers to items in the left pane of Mail (Mailboxes/Folders)
I had/have five imap account in Mail. In all five of these accounts the "account Inbox" appeared at the top as a sub-folder of Inbox. Sub-folders for the account appeared lower in the pane under an the name of the account (in all caps.) These sub-folders would typically be Trash, Spam, Drafts, Deleted Messages, Receipts, and any user created folders.
However...
I just created a 6th account (running a script provided by the host) and the setup turned out to be different. The Account Inbox appears in same place (subfolder of "Inbox" - but the account subfolders appear as "dropdown" sub-folders of the In-box and it has no account folders lower in the pane as does the other accounts.
Everything works fine bit I like consistency! Why the different setup? I can't seem to change either one to match the other (by dragging folders.)
Mail 6.5 on OSX 10.8.4

Mail is thru our own website mail server. When I look at the two different account setups using WebMail the folder setup looks exactly the same (in WebMail). But in Apple Mail they are different as described above. The only difference as I can recall (I set the other assount up long ago....) is that I setup the other account manually and this account was installed via a host suppled script.

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I just recently used the 'use for' function to tell Mail to use the AOL "Sent Items" originally in the AOL group account for mail sent from that account. This resulted in the mailbox being moved into Mail's main "Sent" mailbox & renamed "AOL IMAP." So far, so good, but leads to
Question #5: Is this what is supposed to happen?

(There was no indication of a need for, nor have
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This created an "AOL IMAP" inbox (in the inbox parent)
& an "AOL IMAP" account group mailbox with (@) icon,
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It is my understanding that the four subfolders
already exist on AOL's servers for any AOL subscriber.
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Not sure what you mean here.
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Correct. The fact that they appear in the account group means Mail isn't using them for any predefined meaning. And the reason is that they don't have the same name that Mail uses for them by default.
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Yes.
Does Mail come with a set of names it expects IMAP servers to use
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There is no standard, each server can do whatever it wants.
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necessarily a direct correspondence with Mail's Junk &
Trash mailboxes. Thus, I have no idea if Mail's 'use for'
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Neither do I. Try it.
Question #3: Does anyone have any insights regarding this?
I don't know much about AOL myself. According to this article:
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I would like to have a Mail trash mailbox that
corresponds to AOL's version (which is a sort of
grace period holding tank similar to Trash, except
that AOL controls how long items stay in it before
deletion from its servers). problem is, there is
nothing like that that appears in Mail, either under
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I have the feeling that Mail is already doing what you want, and the reason you cannot see that folder is because the name used by AOL is the same as the one used for Mail (Deleted Messages), and thus, Mail has already been using that folder for that purpose since the beginning.
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In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/IMAP-AOLaccount/. Do you see a Deleted Messages.imapmbox folder there? If yes, and that folder does not appear in the account group in Mail, then Mail is already doing what you want.
I just recently used the 'use for' function to tell
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resulted in the mailbox being moved into Mail's main "Sent"
mailbox & renamed "AOL IMAP." So far, so good, but leads to
Question #5: Is this what is supposed to happen?
Yes.
Regarding my #5 issue, I just noticed a new local
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This mailbox is named (not surprisingly) "Sent
Messages (AOL IMAP)" & exists at the root mailbox level.
This is the folder Mail was using to store sent messages locally instead of on the server (when Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors > Store sent messages on the server was not checked).
Problem is, the local "Sent Messages (AOL IMAP)"
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Nor should it. You've told Mail to use another mailbox for that.
So, question #6 becomes: how do I get this local mailbox
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You don't. Mail will use it again (and it will disappear from the mailboxes list) if you disable Store sent messages on the server.
More weirdness: in Finder the info for this folder
says it was created at the same time as a "Drafts
(AOL IMAP).mbox" & shortly before creating "Junk (AOL
IMAP).mbox" ... yet these creation dates are
approximately one year before the main
"[email protected]" or its contents like
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