[BlueOnyx:26475] Re: POP sent to IMAP sent

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Meaulnes,

> You probably also were confronted with this situation: you left your 
> office (where you use a desktop computer with a POP account) in a rush 
> with your laptop under the arm. On the road, you miss the latest e-mails 
> you sent, because there aren't in the IMAP Sent folder of that same 
> account, they are in the POP Sent folder in your office.
> 
> By sending an e-mail from the office computer using a POP account, the 
> mail client files a copy into the Sent folder. Is there a way to have 
> the same copy in the IMAP's Sent folder on the server, too? It would 
> then be visible on the laptop...
> 
> Any ideas?

Actually this is entirely a client side issue.

Emails are sent with SMTP or SMTPS. Not POP3 or IMAP. When an email is 
being sent, no copy is store anywhere. It comes in by SMTP(S) and goes 
out by SMTP(S). Done.

However: You can configure your email client(s) to keep a copy of the 
email. Either locally, or in a folder on the server. WHICH folder it 
uses to store the email can usually be configured somewhere. But there 
are also varying defaults such as "sent", "sent-email", "sent-mail" - 
even with varying capitalization. That entirely depends on the email client.

When you then access this mailbox with another client, that client may 
have different settings as to IF it stores sent emails and WHERE it does 
that.

This is easy to solve. Check your email client settings and make sure 
they all store sent emails in the same place. Also: Check which IMAP 
folders your email client is subscribed to. It could be that all you 
need is to include the "other" sent-email folder in your subscriptions 
to make it visible in the other email client.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber