On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 14:31 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote: > On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 16:16 +0200, Sven Eppler wrote: > > i'm using evolution in a highschool network wich prevents me from > > sending mail over SMTP (port 25) with my mailserver or with their own > > local mailserver. So i configured my IMAP-Server to accept outgoing > > mails in an Outbox-IMAP-Folder which then will be send by my SMTP-Server > > to the desired recipcient. This works perfectly. > > > > The bad thing ist now, when i write a mail in evolution it will be > > placed in the local outbox with an info that there was an error "broken > > pipe". This simply happens because i must choose a way how to send mails > > when creating an account, so i used sendmail. Therefore the broken pipe. > > And afterwards i always have to move the mail manualy to the desired > > IMAP-Folder. > > You could tell Evolution to put sent emails into that special folder, > there's a setting for it in the preferences. Put a dummy "sendmail" > script in your PATH. Let it do nothing except "cat >/dev/null", then > Evolution should think that it was able to send the outgoing email and > move it into the desired folder.
But then what happens if you *also* want a real Sent Mail folder? Presumably the server will delete messages from the special folder after dealing with them. I guess the fake sendmail script could be written to copy the message to the real Sent Mail folder, i.e. a role reversal compared to Evo's usual operation. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
