Re: [Evolution] IMAP problems with Sent and Trash

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 08:58 +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote:
> Thank you to those who helped me understand better about "On This
> Computer" versus "Gmail" and the difference between POP and IMAP.
>
> I took your advice and collapsed the "On This Computer" tab and set up
> "Gmail" as  IMAP+.  I then changed the defaults to Drafts >
> Gmail/drafts and Sent > Gmail/sent (otherwise my Sent items will end
> up "On This Computer" in Evolution).
>
> The Drafts folder is great.  If I save a draft, then it gets saved
> there (as well as in my Gmail account, online).  However, the Sent
> folder is empty and won't seem to populate.  How do I fix this?

Gmail stores all your sent mail in its Sent Mail folder. This has
already been explained before.

> Also, the default Trash folder that appears under the Gmail tab (not
> the one that falls under the Google Mail tree) seems to archive the
> deleted mail, but then, after a few seconds, those emails vanish.
> Why?  

Read the Help page for Gmail IMAP, where there is discussion of issues
relating to Gmail's handling of Trash. IIRC there is a configuration
option in Gmail to change this somewhat but I don't think it can be made
to work exactly as normal IMAP servers work. I use Gmail and just don't
worry about it.

poc