Mail.app imap folder confusion

Upon changing Pop accounts to IMAP, Mail.app has in its sidebar created what seem to be some sort of headline (same look as "Mailboxes", "Reminders" etc.) for each imap account, with sublfolders like Spam, Trash, Drafts, Sent. All this while unter Mailboxes, there are still Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk categories with subfolders for each account. So everything is dobled. I managed to get rid of most (by selecting the new and via Mailbox / Use this Mailbox for menu assigned them to their purpose; some remain, and also, not I have a folder for each account under Mailboxes / Junk, and an extra one under no categorie (calld "Junk ([email protected])"). All this doesn't really make sense to me. Is there a solution for this immediate problem, and maybe a manual or something that explains the basic concept (which mail help doesn't, and I haven't found anything on line that does)?
Thanks

There is nothing wrong with Mail. The "headlines" are the IMAP servers you have configured. Mailboxes created by each IMAP server are listed there. Mail assumes certain names for things such as Sent and Drafts. If a particular IMAP server uses a different name, or if Mail is set to store Drafts, Sent, Trash or Junk locally rather than on the server, the relevant server mailboxes will appear under the "headlines" as you saw. You did the right thing by associating the actual mailboxes created by the server with special mailboxes such as Sent, Drafts and Trash. Any that remain are "extra" mailboxes that your IMAP provider has chosen to create. You can decide whether or not to use them; they do no harm by just being there.

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