Configuring Outlook Express sent items on IMAP?

[Rob McKaughan]

Given bluehosts changes (http://www.bluehostforum.com/showthread.php?t=3266) over the last few days, does anyone know how to configure OE to auto-save sent items and drafts in the new IMAP namespace bluehost has created? Sent Items and Drafts now appear as sub-folders of Inbox. I can't figure out any way to give OE a sub-folder in Tools/Accounts/[account]/Properties/IMAP. /,\, and . (IMAP's folder separator) don't work.

Thanks!

[Rob McKaughan]

Answered my own question. Here's the procedure for others who have this problem:

1) In the folder list on the left, right-click on an email account (not the inbox, but the actual account) and hit properties

2) Go to the IMAP tab and in the Root folder blank, enter Inbox.

3) Hit OK to this and yes to the message about it having to re-read all your folders.

4) Right click on the account again and choose IMAP Folders.

5) Make sure any folders you want to see are being shown. To show a folder, select it and hit Show. Hit OK when done.

6) Hit ctrl-M (aka send/receive all). OE has to re-download all the messages in all your non-inbox folders. Good time to grab some coffee.

You must do this for each account you have on each machine you connect from.

Hope this helps people...

[kionae]

I would be happy if I could just get it to check my email. What the heck did they do?

[Nancy]

I was able to reconfigure my Thuderbird email props.
Thanks for posting.
~N