Re: [Evolution] My sent folder does not get synchronized

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 09:33 +0000, Ludovic CoumÃtou (aka Coume) wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 13:21 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> > On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:50 +0000, Ludovic CoumÃtou (aka Coume) wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I just realised one thing... When I send emails, I ask them to get
> > > copied to my INBOX/Sent on my imap account.
> > > If I check this folder using evolution, the emails I sent do appear
> > > there, but if I log on my webmail the Sent folder does not have any of
> > > the emails sent using Evolution.
> > > It is like my sent emails do not really get written physically on my
> > > IMAP server, while they do appear on my laptop as if they were kept
> > > locally...
> > > It sounds to me like a synchronization problem, but I may be wrong...
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how I could sort this annoying bug/problem?
> >
> > I do this all the time with no problems. Are you sure you selected the
> > *server* Sent folder under Preferences-><Account Name>->Defaults? Sounds
> > like you might be using the local Sent folder by mistake.
> I am indeed sure of looking into the *server* Sent folder and not the
> local one. 
> > Also, check that your webmail is showing the exact same folder name.
> > There is no universal standard name for "sent mail" folders (or for
> > Trash, Junk, etc.) so it's easy to get this wrong.
> The *Sent* folder has the same spelling under Evo and inside the
> Webmail.
>
> I am sure that I was using that before without problem too... the only
> difference from before is that I have been using for a while now a
> secure IMAP server... Could the problem come from there?
> When you say it is working fine for you. What version of Evo are you
> sing and what kind of connection?

I'm currently on 2.5.90, but I've done this with every previous version
of Evo, at least back to 2.0 and probably back to the 1.x series (can't
remember). The "receiving options" are set to "secure connection:
always", the sending options to "secure connection: never" (because I
send through an ISP that doesn't support SSL), but I don't think the
sending options matter for the copy since it's not done via SMTP. This
is pure speculation of course, since none of it is documented AFAIK.

One thing you might try is to "Post" a message to your Sent folder
(Message->Post ...). If that works I would expect the copy to work also,
and if it fails you might get some idea of why, but I'm not an Evo
hacker and am just reaching here.

poc