Re: [Evolution] Using an IMAP Outbox

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 20:31 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 08:50 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Then the "sent folder" preferences could be left unchanged and a
> outgoing filter "match all" and "copy to folder" could be used. The key
> trick still is to make Evolution believe that sending was successful.

Yes, that looks like a good solution.

poc