I don't think Outlook or OE has the capability to store its "work folders" out of its local mailroot. AFAIR you have to write message rules to move it.
OE does. In the server configuration options you can select to save Drafts, Sent Items, and Deleted Items on the server. It then lets you select which folders for each of those settings.
Yeah - I have always thought that OE was one of the best IMAP clients around for dialup... (going to take heat on this...). Bear in mind it hasn't been updated since around 2001 (vista WM aside), it had decent offline sync, headers-only sync, download only when you click on the message. Thunderbird took ages to add most of these features. OE is still better for *dialup* users in my opinion because it has a better dialog showing what it's doing with hangup-the-phone-once-finished support. Thunderbird and Outlook both kind of twiddle around in the background and kind of assume that you are online permanently and disconnecting is not an issue...
Still, I use always on links, or worst case GPRS much more now so I don't care, but I have a lot of users still on dialup links (expensive ones), so OE still works better for that
Thunderbird is also appalling with attachments, downloading the whole message once so that you can read the few KB of text, then downloading the whole message AGAIN when you open up the attachment... Durr.
If thunderbird has some plugins to do autohangup of a dialup link then I'm interested to hear?
Ed W