Windows Live Mail to store Sent Items on the IMAP Server

Windows Live Mail to store Sent Items on the IMAP Server

The following solution works on our mail servers,

1. In Windows Mail Click on the Tools menu
2. Then click on Accounts
3. Select your IMAP account from the list of accounts
4. Click Properties
5. Then click the IMAP tab, you will get a window like the picture to the right.
6. Type Inbox in the Root Folder Path box.
7. Make sure that Store special folders on IMAP server is selected
8. You should also change the 4 path names to match those actually used by your server, so Sent Items should be changed to Sent, Deleted Items to Trash…
   If you don’t do this everything will still work ok but you will end up with some sent items (from Windows Mail) in the Sent Items folder and others (from other email clients or from Webmail) in the Sent folder.
9. Save your changes, Windows Live Mail will need to rebuild your folder list but from now on any emails you send should be stored on the IMAP server rather than in Local Folders.  It is a good idea to move the contents of your Local Sent Items folder to the new IMAP Sent folder