Re: [Evolution] download sent mail...

[No more cries <nomorecries gmail com>]

Le lundi 25 janvier 2010 à 21:06 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan a écrit :
> On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 00:34 +0100, No more cries wrote:
> > ok... so bad...
> > 
> > i'm sorry i'm french... i mean i send email at work, they stay on the
> > server... and i would like evolution to bring them back in my email
> > folders in evolution... don't know the words to say...repatriate the
> > sent mails ?
>
> "Download them" conveys the idea.
>
> > just like the received one ! when i receive mails at work, then i get
> > back home, evolution download them... but just the received, not the
> > sent ! 
> > weird they didn't think of that case...
>
> Not really. This is the first time I've seen someone asking for this.
>  
> > maybe there is some equivalent that could do this ? because its
> > important for me i get all the emails of the day in my folders once at
> > home... not just the received ones..
>
> As others have pointed out, this simply cannot be done using POP. It's
> not possible because POP only understands a single folder on the server,
> namely Inbox. Since the sent mails are in a different folder (actually a
> different label in Gmail's model, but it amounts to the same thing)
> there's no way a POP client can get at them.
>
> You could I suppose manually move the sent mails back into your Gmail
> Inbox, using the Web interface, but I'm guessing that's not something
> you really want to do all the time. I don't think an automatic filter
> would work because Gmail filters only trigger when mail is received, and
> storing a copy of a sent message is not a message reception.
>
> The proper solution is to use IMAP. It's superior to POP in every way.
>
> poc
>
> PS Please don't top-post on this list. Many people find it very
> annoying.

ok sorry for top posting i 'm new but i got it now
thank you, i'll think about imap... and see if I can mix all the folders of my different accounts in the same local folders on the software by a trick or something.. 
be just like in pop same visualiization, same folders, but getting my sent mail..