Hello,
before paying any effort, what could be the reason that in Postfix, Dovecot, Thunderbird client setup no Sent Items folder is created on the server as a first mail is sent on the newly created account. The mail is sent, but Thunderbird saves it instead in local sent items. Also when checking account settings the 'save copy setting' has changed from server to local and when setting it back to server same happens when a new mail is sent.
For comparison the Apple Mail client creates a 'Sent Items' folder on the server, which afterwards can be selected manually in Thunderbird from that point on to store sent mails. Received mails are stored under /var/mail/vhosts/domain/user in either case.
This issue appeared as I configured an existing server to use another domain name. and thought replacing the host names under /etc/postfix and /etc/dovecot would suffice, besides of course replacing the mail addresses in the mysql table.
Any idea what causes this. As the mail is however sent correctly, what could make creating the sent items folder 'fail' as it somehow appears.
Would logging the IMAP communication from the client to the server help finding the reason if it is at all possible or otherwise I would need to compile the code with printf's.
Server is Ubuntu 22.
- ville--- via dovecot:
what could be the reason that in Postfix, Dovecot, Thunderbird client setup no Sent Items folder is created on the server as a first mail is sent on the newly created account.
Is there documentation stating that Thunderbird is supposed to create a "Sent" folder on the IMAP server, or are you just making this assumption based on what Apple Mail or other MUAs do?
If you want to ensure that "Sent" is created on a Dovecot server, I suggest you configure Dovecot to do that automatically instead of relying on MUA behaviour.
-Ralph
Hello,
so I found out that by right-clicking on the account in TB I created a folder called ‚Sent‘ and afterwards it was also selectable under the ‚Sent‘-folders in account settings. Not like the apple client ‚Sent Items‘ folder was listed under the second dropdown below other server folders in the same TB account settings.
The only thing I didn‘t check if apple mail now picks the sent folder of TB on the server as usually has been the case, or does it still create one of its own.
IIRC, TB and iOS use different sent folders. As most of my house is TB, I changed the iOS sent folder to match the TB one.
On 26/10/2025 12:25, ville--- via dovecot wrote:
Hello,
so I found out that by right-clicking on the account in TB I created a folder called ‚Sent‘ and afterwards it was also selectable under the ‚Sent‘-folders in account settings. Not like the apple client ‚Sent Items‘ folder was listed under the second dropdown below other server folders in the same TB account settings.
The only thing I didn‘t check if apple mail now picks the sent folder of TB on the server as usually has been the case, or does it still create one of its own.
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IIRC, TB and iOS use different sent folders. As most of my house is TB, I changed the iOS sent folder to match the TB one.
On 26/10/2025 12:25, ville--- via dovecot wrote:
Hello,
so I found out that by right-clicking
on the account in TB I created
a folder called 'Sent and afterwards it was also selectable under the 'Sent-folders in account settings.
Not like the apple client 'Sent Items`
folder was listed under the second
dropdown below other server folders
in the same TB account settings.
The only thing I didn`t check if apple mail now picks the sent folder of TB on the server as usually has been the case, or does it still create one of its own.
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