Setting up IMAP

Hi, sorry for the newbie question. I've never used imap before with mac mail.
I've created my account and can send/receive messages. The problem is that I don't see my sent/trash/drafts folders for this account anywhere. All of my pop accounts have them, and my .mac account.
Can someone give me a shove in the right direction?
Thanks

Go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts and under the Mailbox Behaviors tab for your IMAP account preferences, what are your settings for Drafts, Sent, Junk and Trash?
You can store any or all on the server with an IMAP type account.
Depending on these settings - locally stored mailboxes for an IMAP type account are not created until the function is used by the account. If Junk Mail is set to Automatic and Junk messages are not set to be stored on the server, the account's Junk mailbox will not be created until a message received is automatically or manually marked as Junk.
If you have sent messages with this account and you haven't selected store Sent messages on the server, the account's Sent mailbox should have been created under Sent after sending the first message with this account.

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Sorry for delay in replying. I don't use the Mac Mail App so I had to check what happended if I connected it to my mail service. I also have two Sent and Trash folders. I would think that the top ones are on my MacBook and the other on my mail service provider's server. The advantage of having both is that I could access Sent and Deleted messages even if I didn't have an internet connection.
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FastMail also has their own SMTP servers so you won't get into the occasional snafu that occurs when you attempt to use the SMTP server from your own ISP. One thing though, they have four different options available for accounts. "Member" status seems the best ($35/year) as it has large mailbox, storage and data allotments.
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Two things would solve this problem for 99% of iPhone
users I think:
1) Gmail needs to get IMAP implemented.
There is a simple and elegant solution to the Gmail IMAP problem, and it doesn't require deleting all your outgoing messages as some "solutions" have recommended.
1. Go to http://mail.aol.com/ and sign up for a free AOL email account (which will be [email protected])
2. Log on to your AOL email, go into Settings, and turn the spam filters off
3. Log on to your Gmail account, go into Settings > Forwarding and POP
4. Set your Gmail to "Forward a copy of incoming mail to:" [email protected] (also choose whether you want the original to stay in your gmail inbox or get archived)
5. Set up the email account on your iPhone as follows:
- Type of account: Other > IMAP
- Incoming email account: imap.aol.com (use youraolusername and AOL email password for incoming email)
- Outgoing email account: smtp.gmail.com:587 (use [email protected] and Gmail password)
6. Under Advanced settings, have it delete the messages from the server after downloading them. (Optional, but there's no point in leaving them on the AOL server)
Voila! You get:
1. IMAP access to your Gmail inbox (thru the AOL proxy...don't worry, the emails won't look any different than if you got them straight from gmail)
2. Outgoing emails will be sent through Gmail (nobody has to know the AOL account even exists)
3. Messages sent on your home computer will no longer be downloaded onto your iPhone (since that's a function of POP that's particular to Gmail, and does not occur with IMAP)
4. Sent emails will remain with their threads and do not have to be fished out of the trash if you want to be able to search them later (remember that messages in the Gmail trash are automatically deleted after 30 days)

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I've input the correct addresses, ports, encryption settings, etc and I can only get back: "the server is not responding"
Very frustrated, as my previous 4 blackberries could all be set up simply by inputting my username and password.
I really like my new phone but without email it is useless to me. I talked to Rogers tech support and they were unable to help. My IT guy doesn't have any suggestions and just says "we don't administer outside devices, talk to your wireless provider".
It's too late to return my phone so unless I can get the email running I think I might have to put it on ebay or something.
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Most likely it is a firewall issue with the servers where you work. If it is a big company, they may have done some security measures and the local IT people are not aware of this. It is not the first time I've seen this.
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I downloaded Nokia Messaging today and I have a major problem. I set up two accounts successfully eventually -- whose idea was that 'easy' email set up anyway? The mechanism tries to guess the details and got it wrong with all the accounts I tried. Not terribly easy or efficient. Why not do it like everybody else eg mail2web?
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100.07.76 08-06-2008
RM-346 E71-1 241.02
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After many attempts over more than a week, it created the account as [email protected] but when I try to change several settings on the handset (eg insert my name, which is currently blank) it fails to verify. More importantly, it won't let me change the From address, so I am stack with no name and the [email protected] address! The weird thing is that it does download messages, but every time it syncs it downloads another copy of every email -- I have three copies of each message under that account at the moment and I suspect I will get a lot more. Anyone solved this?
I really don't understand why it had to be made so difficult! The sad thing is that the designers will probably think this is more user-friendly And of course there is no support link. I emailed Nokia Support last week and they never replied.
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