On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:

>
> On 28 Jan 2009, at 20:32, mouss wrote:
>
>> ...
>>> OK, so I have to make sure all messages are from me-at-example.com
>>> <http://me-at-example.com> in order for them to appear in the sent-mail
>>> folder of that account.
>>>
>>
>> No, they will not. as said above, the Sent folder is "populated" by
>> imap/web mail clients when _you_ send mail (_you_ != denyhosts, cron,
>> ... etc).
>>
>
> This is probably a little OT, but just to clarify, I think the GMail
> webmail service places messages the messages in the sent box, if it receives
> mail to you with your own sent address.
>
> IE: `cat foo.txt | sendmail -f b...@gmail.com b...@gmail.com` will appear in
> the sent items folder of Bob's Gmail account.
>
> Stroller.
>

I can confirm this now that I figured out how to use generic to replace
linux-user-acco...@example.com with my-gmail-acco...@user.com.

The emails do indeed show up in the sent-mail folder where I wanted to see
them. I just figured this out about 20 minutes ago.

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