Topic: Wierd email problem: "Sent" box not used! (fixed)

[NomadOfNorad]

I have just today installed SME 7.0Pre, configured as Server Only, and have set up a couple of email boxes: nomad and joshua.  I have the machine set to function as an IMAP server, and am using Thunderbird on a Windoze machine to access the two mailboxes.

I have both mailboxes configured the same within Thunderbird.  I first set up the nomad box, and then sent myself a test mail using it.  (From nomad, to nomad) and it worked.  It also saved the sent mail into the Sent folder for that mailbox.

I then poked around in the Web interface for SME, looking to make sure I had everything set up the way I needed.  Didn't really see anything that needed to be adjusted.  I did, however, do the obligitory SME software update, which stalled out the first time, but went through to completion and the second try, resulting in the SME server rebooting itself like normal.

I then added a second mailbox (joshua), via the same SMA web interface I had used to create the first mailbox, and added it to Thunderbird.

I then sent myself a test mail, from joshua to nomad, via Thunderbird, replied to it at the nomad box, and then replied to the reply at the joshua box.

I even sent out a test mail from joshua to my yahoo.com account.  It wound up in yahoo's bulk folder, though (no surprise there), but I moved it to the Yahoo inbox.

HOWEVER, I have noticed that with the nomad box, all the mails I composed with that box got stored in nomad's Sent folder. BUT, no mails created in the joshua box got saved to the Sent box at all!

The Thunderbird settings for both mailboxes is identical:  they are both set to record composed mails to the sending box's Sent folder.

Write a mail in the nomad box, it gets saved to the Sent folder.  Write a mail in the joshua box, it does not get saved.

The only difference between the two boxes is that one was created before updating and the other after.

Is this a bug, or a feature?  

If this is a bug, I will gladly post it to bugzilla here... once I know enough about "what went wrong" to describe it, anyway...

---addendum

Exitted out of Thunderbird, launched it again... and there they were!!!  Joshua's sent mails suddenly just showed up in the Sent folder!
 

Sorry to waste your bandwidth over this problem-that-wasn't-real!  

[CharlieBrady]

Is this a bug, or a feature?  

The correct place to ask that would be a Mozilla/Thunderbird forum. It's entirely up to the mail client where/how/if it saves sent messages.

[NomadOfNorad]

I asked here because I thought it was happening at the server end, rather than internal to Thunderbird.  That is to say, I thought Thunderbird was sending the created mails to the Sent folder... and the server was silently discarding them.

Turns out the information for the Sent folder just wasn't getting updated.  Heh!  Now that I'm aware of this little quirk (of Thunderbird, rather than the server, or maybe it was the server), I can live with it...