Windows 8.1 / Windows Live Mail 2012

Setting up a Windows Live Mail account to sync with Outlook.com using the default auto mechanism does not work properly.

Very recently I hooked up a WLMail 2012 account to Outlook.com using manual IMAP settings. Seems to work fine.

This is what I had done with Windows Live Mail 2011 (on Vista) when I shifted my main mail from another server to Outlook.com a few months ago

In the course of another problem-solving thread it was suggested that it is better to connect via the auto-setup mechanism; the server URL is:

https://mail.services.live.com/DeltaSync_v2.0.0/sync.aspx

In the set-up window it is called Windows Live Hotmail, presumably reflecting the situation in 2012 and/or before Outlook.com.

Today I tried this, and I am on my second attempt.  (I have not deleted the IMAP version.)

The initial sync works and, e.g., the Inbox looks the same as in the IMAP version, as it should.  My Archive folder is the same in both.

However...the Sent and Deleted folders are not created. although they exist in Outlook.com.  These are critical as that is where Sent and Deleted items go, whether processed in online Outlook.com or on the desktop in the IMAP version.

I have tried a manually-created Deleted folder in the Deltasync version but it dos not help.  Nor is there the facility to list the IMAP folders.

And yes, the "Save copy of sent messages in the 'Sent items' folder" is ticked in mail options.

In the Deltasync version there are the 'Deleted items' and 'Sent items' folders, but they don't get populated.  In the IMAP version they don't either, in general, though I have noticed that at one stage a very few items appeared in them, possibly because of special circumstances .

Curiosities:

1)

In the IMAP version there are 2 junk folders:

Junk E-mail

Junk

These match Outlook.com and whilst usually the junk goes into the 'Junk' folder, occasionally junk goes into Junk E-mail, maybe when it is junk redirected from my Yahoo account.  Does not matter/does not bother me.

In the Deltasync version the 2 junk folders are:

Junk email (note slightly different rendering of "email" and that there is no equivalent in Outlook.com)

Junk E-mail

I have not had this long enough to notice anything except just now a message arrived in IMAP 'Junk', which appears in Deltasync 'Junk email'.

2)

I cannot delete anything in a Deltasync account folder.

I can, however, drag messages into the 'Deleted items' folder, something that propagates into the IMAP version.

Messages deleted in the IMAP account simply disappear in the Deltasync version.

I have looked at various threads but could not see an obvious solution, e.g.:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/livemail-sync/how-to-synchronize-sent-mails-through-windows-live/0a9db811-5378-44f3-9099-d1180e5a6a10?page=1

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/livemail-sync/windows-live-mail-2012-not-synchronizing/a306d359-d7d6-4474-ae87-e2aca30e4907

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail-osend/how-to-configure-my-outlookcom-mailbox-in-mail/b4e0fc77-4755-41e4-9fb3-59aef0bc8144?tm=1391630963702

I also had some instructions from Feb 2013:

http://www.outlook-apps.com/outlook-com-pop-settings/

QUOTE

Outlook.com Active Sync Settings
ActiveSync lets you send, receive & synchronize not just your emails, but also your calendar, contacts or tasks. When you add the outlook.com account to
Outlook 2013, on the first screen make sure you select “Manual setup or additional server types”. On the next screen, choose “Outlook.com or Exchange
ActiveSync compatible service” and enter the following Active Sync server settings:

Mail Server: s.outlook.com (if it doesn’t work, also try m.hotmail.com)
Also, mark the box to use TSL/SSL for the server connection.

I tried replacing "mail.services.live.com" with "s.outlook.com".  I did not try "m.hotmail.com".

UNQUOTE

Weird, or what?

=> Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong when setting up the Deltasync account?  (This is supposed to be the automatic way of connecting.)

Is it worth doing anyway?