Re: IMAP , Sent folder and Gnus

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> wrote:
> The Gnus manual (Section 5.5, Archived Messages) explains how to archive
> messages sent by me locally, in a "classic" mail kind of group; that is,
> nnfolder, nnml or something of the sort.  But I would like to store them
> on the IMAP server, in the Sent folder the server so handily provides.
> GUI user agents such as Sylpheed and Claws seem to know how to do this,
> can Gnus be told to do it?
>
> If not, I can hack it by always Bcc'ing myself and having a filter on
> the server to direct those copies to the folder.  But I would rather not
> have to.

You can use gnus-message-archive-group to store messages in imap folder.

I use three Sent folders: one for usenet posts, second for email to
mailing lists and third for all other (standard emails).

'(gnus-message-archive-group 
   (quote (("^[^:]+$" "nnimap:Posted") 
   ("^nnimap:Lists/" "nnimap:Posted-List") 
   (".*" "nnimap:Sent"))))

BTW I use "server less" dovecot to access Maildir folders via IMAP:

'(gnus-secondary-select-methods 
   (nnimap "" (nnimap-stream shell) (imap-shell-program "~/bin/imap")))

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