Nothing weird - its how IMAP works. It's a server-based account so you need
a separate set of folders for the messages. Deleted items are marked for
purging. Labels are a gmail product - they are converted to folders in
outlook and you should have a folder for each label.

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"Marts" wrote in message
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I'm experimenting with Gmail, using it as an IMAP link for Outlook 2003.

I got it working, but Outlook does weird things.

Firstly, after I configured a new email account in OL and pointed it to
Gmail,
it created another set of folders under the Mail. There are the existing
Local
folders including Inbox, Deleted Items, Sent, etc. Then there are a set of
folders under a new one called Gmail.

Now, when I got Outlook to poll for mail it retrieved a heap of messages
dating
back some time. Not sure where they came from as I had deleted all message
in
Gmail before I started.

I then deleted these messages. Or rather, I tried to. All Outlook does is
to
cross a line through them. I cannot get them to actually delete from
Outlook. It
was only when I logged into Gmail webmail that they disappeared.

I then tried creating and replicating my existing message base but I
couldn't
get it to work. I tried creating labels in Gmail but they didn't replicate
in
Outlook.

All I am trying to do is to configure Outlook so that when I log onto my
desktop
or onto my laptop that all message bases are the same. ie. I send a
message from
the laptop that message also appears in the Send folder on the desktop
computer.

Any tips on how to manage Gmail and IMAP with Outlook would be appreciated

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