Re: Show my replies in thread
On 2009-02-28, Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > folder-hook . 'set record=^'
>>
>> One thing that is interesting about the Gmail IMAP server is
>> that a message can exist in multiple folders at the same time.
>> This is actually a pretty powerful concept. In reality there's
>> a database with a single copy of each message, and IMAP
>
> That's true in general but I've confirmed that the hook above
> effectively creates two copies. If I enter gmail web interface, trash
> the copy at Sent Mail, then go to Thrash and permanently remove this
> trashed copy, the one at the original label where I've replied
> still exists by its own.
>
>> "[Gmail]/Sent Mail", so if you want to keep things consistent,
>> you should configure that as your "record" folder in mutt.
>
> No. If you want to play fair with gmail you have to set copy = no, and
> then the record folder becomes irrelevant. That is because they
> automatically save outgoing mails into [Gmail]/Sent Mail, no matter if
> they're send from the web interface or via their smtp server.
>
> They even give this guideline at their site:
>
> https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892&topic=12815
Ah. Good point. I forgot about that (I don't use their SMTP
server).
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