KMail does not store sent messages in IMAP folder as configured

[Nico R.]

Binary package hint: kdepim

In one of my users’ accounts, there is a single identity in KMail. KMail is configured to store all sent mails in a dedicated IMAP folder for this identity.

Whenever a mail is sent by the user, KMail stores it in the “sent messages” folder within “Local Folders”. This is wrong. I expect the message to be stored in the “sent messages” folder within the IMAP account, as set in the identity configuration.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 1 16:56:25 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kontact
Package: kontact 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: kdepim
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[Remco vd Zon (theunknowncylon)]

Version: 1.11.4 (using 4.2.4 (KDE 4.2.4) "release 2", KDE:42 / openSUSE_11.1)
Compiler: gcc
OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.27.23-0.1-default

When one sends an email over IMAP, the email is copied to the local sent-items folder. It should be stored in the corresponding IMAP-folder (too?).

Reproduce:
Add an IMAP email.
Send an email.
Check IMAP sent-items, the email is not there.
Check local sent-items, the email is stored here.

[Nico R. (n-roeser)]

I should add that sending emails is done by using an SMTP server configured in the preferences.

Could this be KDE bug 198620 <URL:https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198620>?

[Nico R. (n-roeser)]

This looks like <URL:https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502096>.

[Jonathan Kolberg (bulldog98)]

I noticed this behaviour, too, and think it would be usefull if that would be done.

[Björn Ruberg (bjoern-ruberg-wegener)]

You have to configure that with you identity. That normally works :)

[Jonathan Kolberg (bulldog98)]

But shouldn’t it be at least a default setting?

[Björn Ruberg (bjoern-ruberg-wegener)]

Then lets make this a which

[Björn Ruberg (bjoern-ruberg-wegener)]

*** Bug 206460 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Upstream: You have to configure that with your identity.
The bug is now about using the IMAP sent folder by default instead of the local one.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Closing in favor of KDE bug report, please refer there for updates. Thanks.

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.

[Luigi Toscano (ltosky)]

Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.

[naught101 (naught101)]

This is very much still the case in Kmail 4.14.6.

I can select a sent mail folder in the New Message window, and I can make it sticky, but it is not per-identity. There should be a per-identity setting for this.