In settings, I have check the box to copy sent messages to sentbox. It’s not happening. Sent messages are being put in the sent box of the SMTP server through which the message is sent, but no copy is put in the local sentbox. Is this by design or a bug? If a bug, I’ll file a report. If it’s by design, is it possible to add an option to also save a copy to the local sent folder?
Background. I’m often looking for copies of messages I sent, but as I generally use POP3 for incoming messages, this means to get a copy of a sent message I have to open the IMAP file hierarcy of the appropriate server. No, it’s not difficult, but its a bunch of extra steps I hope not to need to do.
In the compose window, the block of info at the top has an FCC: line that shows which folder receives sent messages, and allows you to change it. If it’s hidden, Show -> FCC will reveal it.
For this reply, it shows file:///home/jack/mail/Sentbox - note the
capital “S”. The actual file (and how I explicitly configured the
sentbox properties) is sentbox, all lower case. I just created
Sentbox, so we’ll see if that work. Quick post to follow.
OK - nothing got saved, but Sentbox got created. I had to delete that
file to repoint the Sentbox properties to Sentbox (from sentbox) and
we’ll try again.
Well that last one worked, thank you. I assume it got messed up over
the years by some combination of my renaming the file independently of
repointing the Sentbox folder to the right physical file and also
repointing.
Also, ~/mail/sentbox was dated in April, and repointing Sentbox from
sentbox to Sentbox apparently just renamed that file, which was then
dated from April until I sent that last message, and it now has a
current timestamp. Seems something got out of sync. I wonder if it’s
worth (on startup only?) confirming that the files pointed to by all
the predefined folders actually exist?