Re: [Evolution] How do I stop evolution from duplicating sent items?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2019-01-01 at 14:15 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-12-31 at 22:52 +0000, Russell Thamm via evolution-list
> wrote:
> > When I send an email, my provider places the item in the Sent folder.
> > Evolution also insists in putting the item in the Sent folder. 
> > Furthermore, Evolution always takes several minutes to do this.
>
> You can configure where sent items are saved to - probably the easiest
> *work around* is to change it to some local folder (i.e. under "On This
> Computer"). But that's a work around since you are still storing the
> mail.
>
> > Can I configure this Evolution to stop duplicating sent items? 
>
> No, Evolution will always store the sent mail somewhere - this is a
> GOOD thing. It's your ISP that's doing strange things - perhaps you
> should be asking how you can stop them from duplicating items.

Gmail automatically stores sent mail in its Sent folder. AFAIK there is
no way to turn that off (it's part of their "conversation" paradigm). P
ersonally I just configure Evo to use a local folder. This works.

poc