Re: make sent emails synced in imap sent folder

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Fkqqrr <fkqqrr@autistici.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> fkqqrr <fkqqrr@autistici.org> writes:
>>
>>> When sending email in Gnus, 'sent' emails by default go into
>>> 'archive' folder locally.
>>>
>>> How to set sent emails to IMAP sent folder?
>>
>> You can set the `gnus-message-archive-group' option to the desired
>> "Sent" folder. If you have more than one account you're trying to set
>> up, you can set that option to a function that takes one argument, a
>> group name, and returns the appropriate archive group. In my case:
>>
>> (defun my-archiver-figure-outer (group)
>>   (cond ((string-match-p "nnimap\\+This-Account\\|gmane" group)
>>       "nnimap+This-Account:Sent")
>>      ((string-match-p "nnimap\\+That-Account" group)
>>       "nnimap+That-Account:Sent")))
>>
>> (setq gnus-message-archive-group #'my-archiver-figure-outer)
> By the way, this method will send the email again to nnimap sent
> folder on email server?

That's right, it will result in the sent mail being pushed to your imap
server. There isn't any "automatic" connection between your SMTP server
and your imap mail store, so you have to do the archiving yourself.