On 2010-03-04 Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2010-03-03 4:49 PM, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: >> Read again. The "sent items" folder is in the user's mailbox, which >> Thunderbird most certainly does *not* access via SMTP, but via IMAP. > > My point was, if you want this to be done *without* TB having to save > it to the Sent folder itself, it would essentially *have* to be done > during the smtp transaction - there's simply no other way to do it.
Which, if you carefully re-read the mail you initially replied to, is what I already wrote in the part that you chose to omit in your response. >> Saving a copy of sent mail is the MUA's job, not the MTA's. > > It is in most cases, yes (someone already pointed out that Exchange > has the ability to save the Sent message without the client having to > upload it again) Exchange is not an SMTP server, but a groupware server with an SMTP connector, and thus entirely different from SMTP servers like Postfix. > but again, my point is, why does it *have* to be that way. Because SMTP servers do delivery up to a user's mailbox, and no further. SMTP servers do not have any knowledge about how a user may have organized his mailbox internally (i.e. concepts like "sent mail" folders and such), nor should they have to, as this isn't part of SMTP. If you want a groupware solution: there are quite a few around. Postfix (by itself), however, isn't one of them. > 'That's the way its done now', or 'that's the way it's always been > done' is a stupid reason (by itself) to dismiss the idea of a > potentially new feature. See above. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning." --Joel Spolsky
