Mail folders from other accounts not showing up

I have several email accounts which I check through my apple mail account. With one of my accounts all of the folders associated with it show up on apple mail (University of Washington). The other account none of the folders show up (comcast.net) . Also the account which shows all of the folders mail box behavior (through mail preferences) has drafts, notes, sent, junk and trash. The one which none of the folders shows up has notes, sent, junk and trash, plus keep copies of messages for offline viewing (all messages and their attachments is not there. I set up both accounts within 30 minutes of each other and I think the same way (not totally sure) What can I do so both accounts work the same way.
I look forward to hearing from you
dave

Dave,
This is what I have thought was always the case but you have mentioned the setting for keeping copies of messages for Offline Viewing -- this is a setting only related to accounts setup as IMAP?
With a POP such as Comcast provides, there are no folders on the server to see in Mail, and you would manually have to setup On My Mac mailboxes. These would display farther down in the Sidebar.
Please clarify your original question regarding what would be the source of folders you think are missing?
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