--On 26 January 2010 08:40:48 -0500 Tim Gray <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue 26, Jan'10 at 12:43 PM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote:
If you want to know for sure which messages you sent, then you have to
put them into a mailbox that all your clients recognise as the "sent"
mailbox, or define a flag or annotation that all your clients recognise.
Agreed. But for 99.9% of all applications, if the email originated from
your email address(es), then it can be assumed that you sent it. mutt
works this way and it's fine for picking out sent messages mingled in
with others. I basically search for From me.
Of course, there's a whole class of spam that uses the same sender and
recipient addresses. And, there's also the problem that you might have
several email aliases. Mulberry addresses (sorry) this problem by allowing
you to list all email addresses that should be considered yours.
Mailsmith (POP, I know) set a special internal 'sent' flag on sent
messages to distinguish them from other mails. The problem with this is
that you couldn't manually add this flag to any messages, so anytime you
imported old email, etc, your old sent messages always were treated and
appeared differently from emails that Mailsmith actually sent. One of my
few issues with the program.
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