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Firedog,

You helped with a different issue last week but in doing that activity I have another issue that has been bugging me regarding WLM. I assume this is also present in any version of WLM (2011 or 2012).

I appears when a new account is set up for gmail (in my case) it generates a number of folders under the main email account heading:

Gmail (account name)

    Inbox

    [Gmail]

        All Mail

        Drafts

        Important

        Sent Mail

        Spam

        Starred

        Trash

    Drafts

    Personal

    Receipts

    Sent

    Trash

    Travel

    Work

At the [Gmail] level there is a small icon that allows for the folders under [Gmail] to be hidden.

My question is when an account is set up do all of these folders really need to be created and if not how do you NOT have them appear?  If you can't avoid having them set up is there any issue with deleting them - Starred, Personal, Trash, Travel, Work, etc?

Along the same lines as this thread, I have noticed that the message count between the Inbox, All Mail and Important never seems to match. Is there something I can do to keep the message count the same? For example, my current Inbox message count is 461, the All Mail message count is 2802, and the Important message count is 2424. When I move email messages to my storage folders I typically move them from the Inbox folder. Should I be moving from a different source?

I try to keep the Inbox uncluttered and utilize the Storage Folders area to move those messages that I have dealt with. The All Mail and Important folders still hang onto these emails and at times even though the Inbox indication is that they have been read, they may or may not have been indicated as having been "Read" in the All Mail or Important folders.

By moving messages to the Storage Folders I'm assuming that they are being moved to my local disk drive and moved off of the gmail server - but I guess I am wrong. I guess that's one of "perks" of IMAP?