Submission Service Copy To Sent

Asai asai at globalchangemusic.org
Tue Aug 9 21:17:30 UTC 2022


On 8/9/2022 11:05 AM, spi wrote:
>
> Am 09.08.22 um 18:56 schrieb Asai:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> We've had a longstanding problem with emails not being copied to the
>> Sent folder that seems to be a bug with various email clients
>> (Thunderbird, TypeApp.)
>>
>> I know that Dovecot has the option to use the Submission service to
>> copy emails to Sent without using SMTP to do this.
>>
>> Would this solve the problem we've seen over the years of emails not
>> being copied to the Sent folder on various clients under certain
>> (unknown) conditions?
>>
>>
> I had the same issue some time ago, If I remember right, with submission
> the IMAP client needs to support some additional IMAP features which
> most clients currently don't do.
>
> I did it the other way round - my clients send mails by smtp and a
> postfix milter script catches the mail on the mail server and copies it
> locally to the user's IMAP mailbox - the clients don't upload any sent
> mails by IMAP anymore.
>
> Am using mailfromd as milter: 
> https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/software/mailfromd/
>
> -- 
> Cheers
> spi
>
Thank you for your helpful response,

Asai



More information about the dovecot mailing list