At the bottom, set the “Root folder path” option to.When using Outlook 2010, 2013 or 2016 (MSI), you’ll need to perform the following additional actions.Double click on your Gmail IMAP account to open the account settings.File-> section Info-> button Account Settings-> Account Settings…-> tab E-mail.To make the change, you’ll have to go to the “Advanced Settings” tab of your account configuration Setting a root folder for your Gmail account Creating subfolders in Outlook and Labels in Gmail.
Luckily, there is a workaround for that as well.
However, this has an effect on any Labels that you might use in Gmail. To break yourself out of this additional subfolder and have all these folders listed directly under your mailbox in Outlook, you can set a root folder for your Gmail IMAP account. When you are using a Gmail account over IMAP in Outlook, you’ll also automatically get an or folder containing all the “system folders” of Gmail itself.
