On 2010-03-03 Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 2010-03-03 7:37 AM, Ansgar Wiechers wrote:
>>> After thunderbird has sent the email, it then has to save the email
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> to the sent items folders. This can take a long time if there is an
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> attachment and the server is remote.
>>
>> This is done via IMAP, so it's a Dovecot rather than a Postfix issue.
>
> ? dovecot doesn't do smtp - TB would be sending via postfix
> (presumably, since he asked here), but certainly not via imap...
Read again. The "sent items" folder is in the user's mailbox, which
Thunderbird most certainly does *not* access via SMTP, but via IMAP.
> This question has come up here before, and apparently there are good
> reasons that this won't ever be an option in postfix - but I agree it
> would be really nice if postfix had a built-in 'save-sent' option
> which would save a copy to the users 'sent' maildir for messages sent
> by users when sasl authenticated...
Saving a copy of sent mail is the MUA's job, not the MTA's.
Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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