Mail.app - wrestling with the basic paradigm!

I'm migrating from Outlook Express (which I've run very successfully in Classic for years!) but in an effort to do away with the whole Classic installation, I'm having a look around Mail.app
Basic frustration at the moment is the fundamental manner in which Mail seems to handle (and display) multiple accounts. I have several IMAP accounts, and with OE, these were entirely separate entities (with separate Inbox, Drafts, Sent etc) and each functioned entirely independently. This was good!
Now with Mail.app it seems that the default paradigm is to have a consolidated Inbox (with sub-Inboxes representing each account) and the same for Sent mail, etc. Now, each account is no longer 'entirely separate', but there are folders from each separate account grouped together, and away from the rest of the account's folders. I find this very irritating and messy, and wonder if there is a way to change this. I have looked but cannot see one.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

I didn't mention it but, I've spent a few days playing (grappling) with TB too, and have put it to one side for now, to have a closer look at Mail. I've not tried Eudora, ever.
I first looked at TB about 18 months ago, and decided I couldn't live with it's insistence on sorting by date sent as opposed to date received at the server. I've since found that that can now be rectified with a couple of 'config editor' changes, and indeed it worked for me. But there are other irritations...
For example, I dislike the fact that when replying to a group email full of 'To' addresses (as in a wide conversation), only the original sender was entered as 'To' whilst the other recipients were entered as 'CC'. Now, Mail.app does this too, but in that case, I can copy/paste (read: drag) all the 'CC' addresses into the 'To' field, in one hit. With TB, I can only appear to manage this by changing each entry from 'CC' to 'To', individually. How annoying!
I'm beginning to feel that OE was underrated as an IMAP client!

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