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

How often do you re-test to make sure the server is still working the same way?  If the Id response changes?

Bron (more likely to be a user or admin changing server config... it does happen)

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013, at 12:58 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> There isn't a good way, but there's always head-on brute force.
> 
> When you store a message in Sent, store the message-id into a little 
> database on the side. You don't have to take very good care if it, any 
> sort of crap db will do, even an ascii file in a cache directory. When 
> you look at Sent for other reasons, see if the message-ids in that db 
> are all duplicated in Sent, and if most of them are, stop writing to 
> Sent from then on. See? The solution isn't difficult at all, merely a 
> little nauseating ;)
> 
> Have a nice day.
> 
> Arnt
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