Re: sent mail to accounts whose incoming mail is imap

On Thursday 07 Oct 2010 10:54:41 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,
> 
> A further thought.
> 
> Effectively kmail was silently hiding things from me.  It would be good if
> either a property could be put on the standard sent-mail to allow all
> origins to be visible, or a warning when you create an new Identity to
> say "you are using a common sent-mail, if you do this you will not be
> able to see the emails sent using this Identity, do you want to create
> a new sent-mail?".
> 
It's likely that a lot of things will change with KMail2, so let's see what 
arrives and if you are still unhappy about your options you can file a wish.

Anne
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