Mail:IMAP:folders on an iPhone

How do I (or can I) view the same folders on an iPhone as I see on my desktop?

Yes, I'm usually Larry. And I had the same experience with my mother.
In Apple Mail if you look in the bar on the left you should see a heading called "Mailboxes", then under that Inbox with one inbox for each email account (if you only have one account that will be pretty simple; I have 10 different email addresses).
If you look further down you should see Flagged, Sent, Junk, Trash, maybe Archive, Smart Mailboxes and you might see an entry with the name of your email account. Below that you should see a heading On My Mac. If your folders are listed under that heading that's why they are not syncing.
To fix it right click on the Inbox and choose New Mailbox. Create one with any name; Test is good enough. This should add an entry with the name of the account, and it should have under it the Test that you just created.
You can now just click and drag the folders to the new heading that Test belongs to and they should sync.
Note that if the folders are already listed under a heading for your account then there's a different problem that we have to troubleshoot.

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Hi there,
I hope I can keep this simple, I'll go by the steps leading to my propblem:
1.
I've been using POP3 mail for a long time, mainly with Outlook on PC's and now that I have made the godly switch to Apple I've been using Mail.app for a couple months. I host my domains at GoDaddy.com and they offer decent mail servers including webmail, etc. Since I'm checking mail on multiple platforms (iPhone, iPad, MacBook and webmail) I decided to start using IMAP instead of POP3. GoDaddy set that up form me in seconds and I got IMAP working on Mail.app in no time (yes, I deleted the old POP accounts and started from zero creating new IMAP accounts).
2.
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Kinds regards,
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I use an IMAP email provider called Fastmail and use their server-side rules to automatically direct incoming emails into separate IMAP subfolders.
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I was wondering if any one else has experienced a
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solution!
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