[sylpheed:37073] Re: Save to Sent an account preference

[José Luis González]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 05:54:15 +0100
Javier <sylfiger at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:46:22 +0100
> José Luis González <bugs.jlg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Common preferences that decides whether you want sent
> > emails to be saved in Sent. This depends on which account I am
> > using, so I definitely need it to be an account option, not a common
> > preference.
> 
> 
> Hi,

Hi Javier,

> actually, it is an account preference, if it is an IMAP account, at
> least.
> 
> In such cases, you can right click on the sent folder in the
> IMAP/server hierarchy and set it as normal folder or sent folder (if
> it is not already recognized as outbox folder).
> 
> In such case, that a folder is set as Sent folder (note that when is
> set its icon changes), the sent mails are kept within that account
> folders.
> 
> Also, to mention, that Yahoo mail service (yahoo.tld  or aol.com
> accounts), Microsoft mail service (outlook.com or hotmail.tld
> accounts) and Gmail (just to mention the most used mail services, and
> almost the only ones they do) they already keep sent mails on the
> server Sent/outbox folder despite your Sylpheed settings in regard a
> defined folder as sent/outbox, globally, or per account. All mails
> that reach their SMTP are copied to the sender sent folder too.
> 
> A feature that, personally, I hate a lot...

Me too.

> Aside that, I can't tell if POP3 accounts mailboxes behave the same
> way, setting a local folder of that account as sent/outbox, but if
> mails are sent to the default mailbox set as sent, I guess should
> work with them too overriding the default sent/outbox. I don't use
> Sylpheed for POP3, so can't tell.

Actually what I want is to disable saving of sent emails for my Gmail
IMAP account, for the reason you describe (emails are already save by
Gmail, so if I enable saving they get saved twice). And enable for my
POP3 account, which is also from Gmail, because since it's a POP3
account the sent folder is local and doesn't show Gmail's saved sent
messages, forcing me to consult them on the web mail interface.