[sylpheed:37076] Re: Save to Sent an account preference

[José Luis González]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:07:04 +0100
Javier <sylfiger at gmx.com> wrote:

> 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

As far as I know, Sylpheed doesn't copy it to the server too.

> 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.

I think I didn't explain myself well beforehand. I want:

1. Saving sent emails for all accounts, except Gmail's IMAP account.
2. Gmail itself still save sent emails for its IMAP account

3. If possible, Gmail not saving sent emails in my other (POP3) account,
   but that is not that important.

> 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.

The problem with your technique is the mailbox in the local computer is
common to all accounts, including Gmail's IMAP account, so if I enable
saving of sent emails that Gmail IMAP account also gets sent emails
saved in my common mailbox, which I don't want.

> 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...

I think I'm not understanding you well. How am I going to leave for the
POP3 account it as default unlike the IMAP one?

> 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.

I keep all my email at server for the IMAP account, out of convenience
and of consistence (since it's an IMAP account).

Best regards.