Mailboxes and Folders in Mail

Does anyone know why mail creates folders for my IMAP accounts named "Deleted Messages", "Junk", "Sent" etc. I already have these setup as mailboxes at the top of mail and folders don't seem to mirrow my mailboxes just have a small selection of random emails.
Mail seems to create these folders for each mailbox I create and I'm wondering if I can safely delete them?
Thnx,
Kerry

don't delete those mailboxes. Mail didn't create them. those are mailboxes created on the server at the moment your email account was first created. they are used for example when you access your account from webmail. you can use them instead of the mailboxes that Mail set up later. say, select "sent" mailbox in the imap section at the bottom. then go to mailbox menu->use this mailbox for->sent.

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