How to keep sent mails in cyrus

[twk]

> Oliver Demetz - Hardware-XPress.de wrote:
> 
>> Hi all!
>>
>> Finally I've succeded installing cyrus imapd.
>> Now, I want to realize the following:
>>
>> Normally, when sending a mail, a copy of that mail is kept locally on
>> my pc in Sent-Folder.
>> What I'd like to realize is, that a copy of that sent mail is stored
>> in a subfolder 'Sent' of my imap-mailbox on cyrus.
>>
>> Is that possible?
>> My MTA is postfix.
>>

Rather than depending on the server and client to save the copy, I 
choose a sent folder, then give it the "p" (post) ACL. Then I use plus 
addressing to BCC a copy of the message directly into the sent folder.

For example, if my sent folder is "sent" and my id is "joe" this is the 
address to which I would BCC the copy :

joe+sent at myserver.edu

Due to the way Sendmail parses email addresses on our mail relays by 
normalizing the entire address to lower case, I can only use sent 
folders that are not capitalized (i.e. sent).

I discovered this method when using older versions of Netscape. If the 
server was busy, the save to sent folder would cause Netscape to "hang" 
while waiting to deliver the copy. Cancelling the save allowed the mail 
to go out, but did not save the copy. The method I use now uses SMTP to 
deliver the copy. It always works. There is an option in the "Copies" 
dialog that allows the configuration of a BCC for all messages sent.

The only downsides to this method, is that mail in the sent folder 
always appears as "unread" and it is possible for someone to send mail 
directly into your sent folder.

Cheers,
Tom

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