no, if your version supports expanding folders you can't stop it.

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"ferrad" wrote in message
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I have a rule which states that all messages to a certain recipient
must be moved into a particular folder. This folder is a few levels
deep and is normally collapsed so I don't see it in the left hand
navigation panel. This works fine except that after the move, the left
hand tree becomes expanded with all the levels down to the folder where
it is moved to. I do not want this, I want the whole tree to remain
collapsed as before. Is this possible?