Re: [Evolution] Save sent messages in a chosen folder

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Sat, 2017-12-09 at 13:49 -0500, david thekramers net wrote:
> I'm looking to move away from Thunderbird, for performance reasons.  I'm 
> involved in lots of groups, and like to keep all the emails for those 
> groups together, including the ones I send.  One of the features I'm 
> looking for is the ability to specify what folder to save an email I am 
> sending in, at composition time. Thunderbird has a plugin that lets me 
> do this. It defaults to one folder (Sent), but I can choose via pulldown 
> to save the sent email to the current folder, or any other folder.
>
> I don't really understand why this is not a popular thing for people to 
> want to do, but I don't hear others asking for it much. If you're 
> involved in 4 different groups, do you let all your sent mail go to Sent 
> no matter what the mail is about?  Doesn't that make it hard to find 
> conversations later?
>
> Is there a way to do this in Evolution?

I do not think so.

You could use search folders to see complete threads:
https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-search-folders.html
You could set up (static) filters to move messages to certain folders:
https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-filters.html
You could change which default folder to save sent messages in:
https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-default-folder-locations.html

andre
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