IMAP AOL not showing sent mail

When I set up a friend's AOL email account using mac mail, the folders appear, including "sent items", but sent items never appear.
It there something I must do from AOL?
thank you
alan

Hello Alan.
If your friend wants to store messages sent with the Mail.app on the server for the AOL account, go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts and under the Mailbox Behaviors tab for the account preferences, is "Store sent messages on the server" selected?
If so, open the AOL account icon in the mailboxes drawer to reveal the Sent Items mailbox. Select the Sent Items mailbox and at the menu bar, go to Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For and select Sent.

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