"Upload sent messages to sent folder after sending" not working with IMAP

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Hi,

This is with my own server. If I use thunderbird, and tell thunderbird to place sent mail in the sent folder, it works. With K9, I can send mail, the recipient receives it, but it does not go in the sent mail folder. I have Upload sent messages checked in my settings.

Is there anywhere I can check for a log to see why this is failing or what is happening when it tries to place a message in sent?

Thanks!

edit: I am shamefully dumb. I went to the folders menu and saw that the folder was set to ā€œautomatic: noneā€ by default. I thought it would use the sent folder by default. It didnā€™t occur to me that this could default to automatic, which would then give up and use ā€œnoneā€ instead of the pre-existing ā€œsentā€ folder. Either way, problem fixed incase anyone else is as dumb as me and misses this.

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As far as I know K9 requests the folder mappings from server - if the mapping is not available it sets it to NONE. There are some other threads on forum about this and also a proposal to show a warning in case none is chosen.

Maybe you can check your server settings if there all is correct?

Also, please mark your message as ā€œSolutionā€ to show others that this is solved. Thanks.

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I think itā€™s not possible to mark the first post as solution. Given that the info was added by editing, we cannot mark it as solved.

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Can you elaborate on what you mean by ā€˜requests the folder mappings from serverā€™.

Iā€™ve recently discovered that my sent items havenā€™t been copied to my sent folder (which they used to do). I finally found the option under the Account settings page for each account I have setup.

In there, it said that it was set to ā€˜Automatic (none)ā€™.

Iā€™ve never heard of IMAP folder mapping, and I canā€™t see anything in the IMAP RFC about it. Is this an extension to the protocol, or something Iā€™ve missed?

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Thanks. I had a hunt around but that RFC didnā€™t pop up in my searches.