How can I make Mail use different IMAP folders?

As I was hoping to switch to Apple Mail from Thunderbird I have both live on my machine.  The core principle behind IMAP is that you can use a central resource to synchronise multiple devices, but I have just discovered where my missing email went: Apple seems use a different folder to store sent messages than Thunderbird (or MS software, or practically any other bit of kit I have been using with IMAP).  Brilliant idea - this more or less nukes any corporate deployment without a lot of prior planning..
Given the volumes involved it would be *massively* simpler if I could just tell Apple Mail where to store its "Sent" (and Draft) messages, but it appears that this is not possible so I'll have to do some butchering in Thunderbird to get this straight.  Anyone with a different opinion?

You would take the Sent folder under an IMAP account, highlight it, and under Mailboxes in the menu, choose Use This Mailbox For, and select Sent. That will map the sent messages from the IMAP account to the main Sent folder. You do this for the other mailboxes like Trash, Drafts or Junk also if you wish to map them to the main mailboxes.
Note that doing this will move any local mailboxes created for that account out of the main and they will be replaced by the IMAP mailboxes.

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