Mail sent items problem

Hi everyone recently bought my first mac and been having problem setting up my imap email accounts, the problem is my sent messages are not showing up even tho they have been sent and received, I have 3 imap accounts all the account details are correct the left hand menu looks something like this, with the following inconsistancies
Mailboxes
inbox
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
sent
[email protected]  .......................(SOME ITEMS)
[email protected]  .......................(SOME ITEMS)
                                     ..............................(MYEMAIL2 IS MISSING FROM HERE ALTOGETHER)
[email protected]
deleted items
junk E-mail
sent .......................(EMPTY)
sent items  .............(FULL FROM SERVER BUT NOT UPDATING WITH NEW SENT MESSAGES)
spam
trash
[email protected]
deleted items
junk E-mail
sent .......................(SOME ITEMS)
sent items  .............(FULL FROM SERVER BUT NOT UPDATING WITH NEW SENT MESSAGES)
spam
trash
[email protected]
deleted items
junk E-mail
sent   .....................(EMPTY)
sent items  .............(FULL FROM SERVER BUT NOT UPDATING WITH NEW SENT MESSAGES)
spam
trash
Also when I send an email it doesn't show up in sent items therefor its not backed up and saved to the server it only appears in the largely empty sent folders
I would like every sent item to be sent to the sever "sent items" folder and have my "sent" folder for [email protected] appear under mailboxes like the other 2 email addresses anybody know whats going on and how to rectify it
Thanks

Ok I solved the problem for the benefit of anybody who might find this post and have a similar problem.
The problem was I used windows mail and later windows live mail for years and they had created a lot of different folders which synced with my imap folders, my host default folders were as follows
drafts
inbox
sent items
spam
trash
other folders which appeared in some of my accounts depending on which mail programs I had used to access them were as follows
deleted items
deleted messages
junk E-mail
Notes
sent
sent messages
1) I deleted my accounts from my mac and other devices such as my iphone in mac mail this is under
Mail menu----preferences-----accounts  highlight the acount and press the minus button
2) then I logged into my online mail account for my host, moved items from folders such as "sent" and "sentmessages" to my default "sent items" folder, they had been placed in these odd folders by various email clients and deleted those non default folders
3) I then re set up those accounts in mac mail and highlighted the "sent items" folder in the left hand menu in each case and then went to the
mailbox menu---- use this mailbox for-----sent
4) then finally re synced my iPhone mail accounts, now it all works and my mail accounts are nice and clean
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