Sent messages aren't saved in IMAP server

Since I upgraded to Leopard the other week I'm having a problem with Mail, the messages I send are not stored on our IMAP server.
The error that shows up in system.log is:
Nov 1 14:57:02 iblack Mail[2113]: Error (null) occurred while trying to append messages to outgoing store. Ignoring and proceeding with delivery...
This is the least informative error I've ever seen
The IMAP server has no problem storing other users' sent items, it also works perfectly on the two other macs we have here which aren't running Leopard.
I tried googling the error but that yielded 0 results, anyone here able to shed some light on the problem/error?
Tomas

Same problem here, connecting to a Groupwise (not latest) server. Whenever Mail.app 3 tries to upload/save a new messsage to the server, it would not save and completely lose the message!
I found slightly more information by turning off the "Save to server" option for Sent and Drafts, created a new message that I saved as draft, and then tried to manually move items to the Drafts or Sent folder on the IMAP server.
The error I received was: The message <message> could not be moved to the mailbox <mailbox>-<account>. The IMAP command "APPEND" (to <mailbox>) failed with server error: APPEND NotJunk.
To my inexperienced eyes, it looks like the latest version of Mail changed it's default IMAP handling commands that may be incompatible with older IMAP servers. Anyone else have more insight or know how I can get back Mail.app 2.x from Tiger?

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