silly question: how does mail get in the sent folder?

[Simon Matter]

> Hi there (especially Conrad and Dick),
>
>>No, no... postfix has nothing to do with your sent ( or sent-mail )
>>folder. This folder is managed by your mail client.
>>
>>
>>
> OK, I could have guessed that because I have to configure the name of it
> in my MUA (feeling silly).
>
>>When you send a mail, your client makes a copy of your mail an save it
>>in the folder, which is configured to hold your sent mails.
>>
>>This has nothing to do with cyrus, uw-imap or postfix.
>>
>>
> hmm. As long as you're referring to POP, I completely agree and
> understand. But since IMAP-"Sent mail" is stored on a server folder, my
> question is: how does it get there?
>
> My MTA (Postfix) handles the incoming SMTP-Connections from my MUA, so I
> could image there is some kind of SMTP command "store following content
> in folder XYZ(sent) for user ABC". But this would mean that the
> MX-Server always had to be identical to the Server where you get your
> mail from, wouldn't it?
>
> So there had to be something like (the possibility to state) a host
> name, user name, and folder name in a SMTP-connection like "connect to
> user jstaerk at host ABC and store the following mail in the folder
> 'sent-mail'"?
>
> Sorry for being fussy but that knowledge could help me with my "how to
> post to top-level-shared-folders"-question.

In fact nothing prevents you from letting your MTA send every sent mail to
the users sent folder. It could be done but I never heard somebody did it
that way because it's common that the MUA does it and doing it via MTA is
not very easy.

Simon


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