[sylpheed:37074] Re: Save to Sent an account preference

[Javier]

Hi,

I see.

On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 11:59:05 +0100
José Luis González <bugs.jlg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).

If you meant twice because Sylpheed copies it to the server too, as
told earlier, just change the server sent folder on Sylpheed folder
hierarchy to a normal folder. After that the copy will be locally
only (Sylpheed restart might be required) and then Gmail would make
its own copy on server.

But, if you don't want that local copy either, maybe you could set the
folder for sent mails for that IMAP account to the main "trash" folder
(lower-case, but the exact name can be found on your folderlist.xml),
then you just clean-up your trash folder when you desire.

That can be setup on advanced tab in the account settings.

> 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.


And for the POP3 leave it as default, saving it to the default
Sylpheed mailbox, this is, locally.

But remember that, anyway, you would have a copy on Gmail too...



In the other hand despite is just a personal preference, having a
local copy for the IMAP account saves you headaches in case you can't
connect to the IMAP mail server and, after all, is the default
behavior of any mail client, save a copy locally.

If the mail services make a copy now is just because the "new"
mobility devices, each with their own method to access mail, and to
keep some logic on mail preservation, "forced" them too to please
users and save headeaches...

QUESTION: where are my mails?
ANSWER: in the last device/software you used


But if by any chance they stop doing that copy on server, on their
own, you are in troubles, as you may not have a copy then.


I told this just in case someone misses the point of all this.


Regards.