Re: [Imap-protocol] Is there some way to detect servers which automatically add sent messages to the Sent mailbox?

Dave Cridland <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
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On 13 Jan 2013 19:32, "Ian Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I’ve noticed that in some systems when you send a message via SMTP, it
will put a copy in the user’s Sent mailbox.  Most of them don’t however,
necessitating that I do an IMAP APPEND to get the message in Sent.  Is
there a good/any way to tell when the APPEND is necessary?  Right now I’m
doing it all the time which is resulting in double copies in the Sent
mailbox for systems that do it automatically.
>

No, there isn't, as far as I know. You can, on some systems, tell which is
the Sent mailbox, and you could watch it for a new message, I suppose. I
bet systems supporting special use mailboxes don't do the automatic append,
though.

On other systems, the "correct" method for sending a message is to first
append it, and then submit by BURL.

Finally, Alexey had a postaddress extension which allowed you to do the
append by using a special address during submission.

Dave.

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