On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 20:31 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 08:50 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > 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. > > Then the "sent folder" preferences could be left unchanged and a > outgoing filter "match all" and "copy to folder" could be used. The key > trick still is to make Evolution believe that sending was successful.
Yes, that looks like a good solution. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
