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

[Jochen Staerk]

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.
>
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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.
>  
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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.

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