IMAP: Mutt fails to save sent messages when drafted by a different IMAP client
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mutt (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: mutt
mutt:
Installed: 1.5.17+
Candidate: 1.5.17+
Version table:
*** 1.5.17+
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS
Release: 8.04
For a given IMAP account, when a message is drafted by a client other than mutt, and then that same message is recalled by mutt, edited, and sent, the final message is not saved in the $record mailbox. It is silently lost. This happens even though $record is properly set and email drafted and sent with mutt exclusively is properly saved.
To reproduce:
1. Draft an email in an IMAP account with a client other mutt, e.g. thunderbird or webmail.
2. Save the draft in the drafts folder. This folder should be be the same as $postponed in muttrc
3. recall the drafted email using mutt
4. send the email
5. the email is silently lost and fails to be saved in $record
It is not uncommon to use multiple different clients with an IMAP account (e.g. webmail, mutt, thunderbird).
| lunch (launch-mailinator-com) wrote | #1 |
| Andrew McCarthy (andrewmccarthy) wrote | #2 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in mutt (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
One workaround for this would be to create a separate drafts folder that is specifically mutt's. But this breaks the client-neutral nature of IMAP. And RFC 2683 addresses such interoperability concerns stating that the name for special use folders such as 'drafts' or Sent mail' should be the same across clients if so desired.
"In addition, the client developer should provide a convenient way for
the user to select the names for any special-use mailboxes, allowing
the user to make these names the same in all clients used and to put
them where the user wants them."
(See ftp://ftp.