Re: sent mail to accounts whose incoming mail is imap

On Thursday 07 Oct 2010 10:52:10 David Goodenough wrote:
> On Thursday 07 October 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 Oct 2010 15:49:00 David Goodenough wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have a kmail setup (1.13.5) which has one POP account, and two
> > > disconnected IMAP accounts.  This setup has been migrated over
> > > several years from much older versions.
> > > 
> > > The two IMAP accounts are talking to servers which run exim4 and
> 
> dbmail.
> 
> > > So outbound mail does not normally appear in any of the dbmail
> 
> folders.
> 
> > > When I send mail it gets copied into ~/Mail/sent-mail, which ever
> 
> account
> 
> > > I use to sent it (which is good), but only the ones for the POP account
> > > seem to get displayed when I look in the sent-mail folder under Local
> > > Folders.  There are INBOX.sent-mail folders on the two IMAP accounts,
> 
> but
> 
> > > they are empty and anyway they point to different files when you look
> > > at the properties.
> > > 
> > > I can not find any settings which filter (or not) the available mail in
> > > sent-mail.
> > > 
> > > Is is possible (and if so how) to either set up separate sent-mail
> > > folders for the two IMAP accounts which filter just the mail for that
> > > account or to remove the filter on the sent-mail folder so that all
> > > mail is displayed.
> > 
> > I can think of two possible solutions for your consideration - one of
> > them may suit, depending on your present situation.
> > 
> > If you filter your POP and IMAP accounts into separate folders you can
> > right- click on the folder in question, choose Properties, and elect to
> > keep replies in the same folder.  The weakness of this is that if you
> > originate a thread that message will have to be manually pulled into the
> > folder, but otherwise it works fine.
> > 
> > The second solution is to use a separate identity for each account - you
> > may already do this?  If you do, choose to Modify the account, and on the
> > Advanced tab you can set a custom sent-mail folder - create it under the
> > mail account folder if you wish.
> > 
> > Anne
> 
> Anne,
> 
> I have separate identities, so I took the second option.  I had looked
> under Accounts for the location of the sent-mail folder, and missed it
> under Identities.
> 
> Now I suppose I need to find a program that will read the sent-mail file,
> parse each email, look at the sender, and move the ones for the two
> accounts into the sent-mail folder for that account.  You don't happen
> to know of such a beast do you?
> 
I think it would be do-able by piping your mail through a script, but I can 
only do the most basic stuff in scripts, so you need someone more skilled.  
Sorry.

Anne
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