Re: [Evolution] unable to properly use evolution with microsoft and google mail

[d18jf98rw use startmail com]

On Monday, October 2, 2017 3:11 PM, Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net> wrote:
 
> On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 13:38 -0400, d18jf98rw use startmail com wrote:
> > Thunderbird has an option to skip saving sent messages. It comes very
> > handy with both microsoft and google mail which automatically save
> > outgoing email in appropriate folder.  Evolution is missing this
> > option and user is forced to save outgoing mail to local Sent to
> > avoid duplicate copies on microsoft and/or google IMAP server.
> I'm afraid I don't understand the problem you're reporting.  I don't
> use any Exchange servers (anymore, thank $DIETY), but I use the Google
> IMAP server all day every day and I've never noticed duplicate messages
> appearing in my Sent folder.  I've just looked again and there is only
> one copy of each of my sent mails.
>
> Can you be more specific about exactly what the problem is?
>
> I'm using Evolution 3.22.6, and I set up my Google account using Online
> Accounts.  When I configure the account in Evolution (via
> "Preferences") in the Defaults tab the "Sent Messages Folder" value is
> "<me>@gmail.com/[Gmail]/Sent Mail".

Confirming that. Apparently gmail somehow figured out how to fix evolution problems but hotmail hasn't yet.

I have no idea why you mentioned *Exchange servers*. I clearly indicated that I am using hotmail in *IMAP* 
mode...

Josh.