Going from OE to Live Mail

I downloaded and installed Live Mail on my XP computer. It copied all my
mail, folders, accounts, etc from OE to Live Mail. Everything went fine.
However, now I have three folders, Sent Mail, Deleted Items and Drafts
listed under the Storage Folders Heading. These are not needed since they are
now duplicated under each account. Using Live Mail, nothing goes in them.

If I right click on them, the delete option is grayed out. I have tried
going to the storage location and deleting the folders there, but when I
restart Live Mail they are recreated. Any way to get rid of them?

"TxPres" <> wrote in message
news:537D4376-2B78-4267-A390-...
> I downloaded and installed Live Mail on my XP computer. It copied all my
> mail, folders, accounts, etc from OE to Live Mail. Everything went fine.
> However, now I have three folders, Sent Mail, Deleted Items and Drafts
> listed under the Storage Folders Heading. These are not needed since they
> are now duplicated under each account. Using Live Mail, nothing goes in
> them.
>
> If I right click on them, the delete option is grayed out. I have tried
> going to the storage location and deleting the folders there, but when I
> restart Live Mail they are recreated. Any way to get rid of them?

These are system folders that can't be deleted. The Drafts and Sent items
folders are used for newsgroup messages, and the Deleted items folder is
used to save both deleted newsgroup messages and items deleted from Storage
folders. It's not true to say they are 'not needed' - they might be!
--
Noel

Thank for the info.
I don't use LM as a newsreader so did not realize their use.


"Ildhund" wrote:

> "TxPres" <> wrote in message
> news:537D4376-2B78-4267-A390-...
> > I downloaded and installed Live Mail on my XP computer. It copied all my
> > mail, folders, accounts, etc from OE to Live Mail. Everything went fine.
> > However, now I have three folders, Sent Mail, Deleted Items and Drafts
> > listed under the Storage Folders Heading. These are not needed since they
> > are now duplicated under each account. Using Live Mail, nothing goes in
> > them.
> >
> > If I right click on them, the delete option is grayed out. I have tried
> > going to the storage location and deleting the folders there, but when I
> > restart Live Mail they are recreated. Any way to get rid of them?
>
> These are system folders that can't be deleted. The Drafts and Sent items
> folders are used for newsgroup messages, and the Deleted items folder is
> used to save both deleted newsgroup messages and items deleted from Storage
> folders. It's not true to say they are 'not needed' - they might be!
> --
> Noel
>
> .
>