Re: [Evolution] Using an IMAP Outbox

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 14:31 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 16:16 +0200, Sven Eppler wrote:
> > i'm using evolution in a highschool network wich prevents me from
> > sending mail over SMTP (port 25) with my mailserver or with their own
> > local mailserver. So i configured my IMAP-Server to accept outgoing
> > mails in an Outbox-IMAP-Folder which then will be send by my SMTP-Server
> > to the desired recipcient. This works perfectly.
> >
> > The bad thing ist now, when i write a mail in evolution it will be
> > placed in the local outbox with an info that there was an error "broken
> > pipe". This simply happens because i must choose a way how to send mails
> > when creating an account, so i used sendmail. Therefore the broken pipe.
> > And afterwards i always have to move the mail manualy to the desired
> > IMAP-Folder.
>
> You could tell Evolution to put sent emails into that special folder,
> there's a setting for it in the preferences. Put a dummy "sendmail"
> script in your PATH. Let it do nothing except "cat >/dev/null", then
> Evolution should think that it was able to send the outgoing email and
> move it into the desired folder.

But then what happens if you *also* want a real Sent Mail folder?
Presumably the server will delete messages from the special folder after
dealing with them.

I guess the fake sendmail script could be written to copy the message to
the real Sent Mail folder, i.e. a role reversal compared to Evo's usual
operation.

poc