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. > > The other main goal of using an "Outbox" folder is to avoid sending your e-mail twice through the link (one using SMTP, and the second one using IMAP to store it in the "Sent" folder). This solution does not.
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