Mail copying to Sent Messages on IMAP server

i noticed that with 10.5.4 that the message appears to be sent to the Sent Messages folder, but never seems to make it.
can anyone let me know if there have been any changes on this front (iMail server).
it behaves differently than it did, but still not correctly.
thanks so much!

I have been having this problem intermittently, with the same error messages. Some messages are sent and stored properly, others are sent but not saved, and I cannot find a pattern. The only condition that occurred to me is that it generally happened within the first few messages I sent after waking the Mac from sleep, reconnecting to my wireless network and syncing Mail (which it does automatically). None of the messages were large at all (~40 KB, I'd say) but some had attachments such as pictures (~100 KB). All of the recipients were in my Address Book.
I guess that a less-than-ideal workaround is to 'automatically cc/bcc myself', activated in Preferences > Composing, and subsequently delete the messages if they are in the Sent folder. (Admittedly a real pain for large volume of messages, but at least you have a copy of the messages.)

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If I do NOT store my sent messages on IMAP server, where are they?

My hosting service warned me that I am taking up too much space with my Sent messages being stored on the IMAP server. If I uncheck the box to store Sent messages on the server in my account preferences, then where do I find my sent messages? All of the folders listed alongside the sidebar seem to be linked directly to the IMAP account. I can't find my sent messages anymore.
They aren't gone though. If I check the box again, the messages show up again. So my question is how do I not store them on the server but still store and be able to see them on my computer?
Thanks
Bob

That is a solution if I want to do a one-time move of my sent messages to another folder and then leave things as-is. But once I stop storing the sent messages on the server, how do I access new sent messages after that? The folder is not visible anywhere, from what I can tell.

With an IMAP account, if "Store sent messages on the server" is checked does Mail only store mail on the server?

With an IMAP account, if "Store sent messages on the server" is checked (in Mailbox behaviors) does Mail only store sent mail on the server?
So should it not be checked if you want Mail to store sent mail on the server and the computer?
Thank you.
iHope

Hi Norm G,
Thanks for your comments and the link to further information.
With it checked you will get both on the server and the Mac.
I have it checked, yet when I pause the curser over Sent mailbox the tooltip says "Contents stored on server. Name on server: Sent Messages". Does this mean stored only on the server or also on the server?
What does your tooltip say?
At the moment sent emails only appear in that Sent mailbox. If Mail also stores them on the Mac should they also appear in another Sent folder "On My Mac"?
Thanks for your help.
iHope

I get nothing but error messages, -"Your IMAP server wants to alert you to the following: 113 that mail is not available" or 364? there are hundreds stacked up.You must give answers to how to fix these when we do "search" add the error code number

I get nothing but error messages, -
"Your IMAP server wants to alert you to the following: 113 that mail is not available" or the same with: 364?
Now there are hundreds stacked up on my desktop.
I cannot find the answer anywhere. You need to give answers to how to fix these errors because when I "search" "error code" or the number there is NOTHING. NOTHING! Yet you give us these stupid error codes
then you do not give us ANYTHING on how to fix these. These error codes make me so mad it makes me hate outlook, and hate the developers and hate microsoft. How in the world can you give us ERROR codes without the explanation of what
to do or how to fix it. You need to add each error code number in your "search" then explain what it is and how to fix it. I am not a tech. I am a lawyer. I have googled the entire string of error code and nothing is clear.
So, for the last several years, I get these error codes. Also, there is another error code that won't go away--it is the password error code that asks if I want to store the password. Yes, so I say YES. but it pops back. I am sick of this. This is the reason
I hate Microsoft and I love google. #1 they respond to error, #2 them try to fix them you do not. I paid the full price to buy the OUtlook 2010, almost $500 just to get outlook, and all I got was error codes. I could not even open it because all I would get
was that error codes and NO ONE knew how to fix them. WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM that you cannot fix the stupid error codes that you imbed? PLEASE HELP

Hi,
I understand how frustrated you are when facing such an issue, maybe I can provide some suggestions on the problem.
Based on the description, you should be using an IMAP account setup in Outlook. As for the error message, usually it's caused by a corrupted message on the Server. I suggest you logon the Webmail site, check if sending/receiving emails works well.
If you find any unusual emails that cannot be read or sent, try deleting them to try again.
I also suggest you create a new profile to setup the IMAP account:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918/en-us
Contact your Email Service Provider to get the correct and latest account settings, since you have been using Outlook for years, some settings may have been changed while you haven't been informed.
For the steps to setup an account in Outlook 2010, please refer to:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/outlook-help/add-or-remove-an-email-account-HA010354414.aspx
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

How do i leave a copy off sent emails on the server with mac mail

How do i leave a copy off sent emails on the server with mac mail.
Pop account

Check your mail preferences. The example below is from the mail app that comes with mac. In my case I'm using yahoo mail which is a POP3 account. POP stands for post office protocol which is the set of rules used by a POP mail account to transfer mail. You can learn more about it here if interested. If the box below is checked, all the mail will be downloaded to your computer when you check your mail using the built in mail app and removed from the mail server. Here is another page to help you set up your hotmail account for use the the mac mail application. Hope this clears things up.

Not saving copy of sent messages.

Hi, I used to have my mail account set up as an Imap but I started to get a lot of messages come into my mailbox with text missing in the subject or sender lines and even have the content be empty. I switched it to a pop account and all that stopped. Lately, I've missed having the messages stay on my server so I can check them again from work the next day so I set up an imap account again. It is working (about one week) but I'm having two issues. Sometimes the missing text issue is happening again but more annoying is that when I am typing a message, I keep getting a message that says 'this message cannot be saved'. The message is being sent but it is was not saving it in my sent messages folder. I had originally set it up to keep sent messages on the server and when this error message started, my ISP suggested I change that. I did and it stopped. But today, it started again, but not with every message. One I sent out a half hour ago shows up in my sent mail folder on my computer. However, I was just working on another message and got the error message. I sent the message but their is not a copy in my sent folder.
Any thoughts??

BellaMichelle,
After re-reading your post, I believe one of your
problems (the one that annoys you most) is related to
the Drafts mailbox. Do you have "Store draft messages
on the server" enabled in Preferences > Accounts >
Mailbox Behaviors?
Yes I do.. should I have it or not??
Regarding the other problem about messages not being
displayed properly, what are your "Keep copies of
messages for offline viewing"
this says All messages and their attachments
and "Automatically
synchronize changed mailboxes" settings in
Preferences > Accounts > Advanced for this
account?
this is not checked.
David, you said you get the error
message but I am not clear if your messages are
being
saved or not... I am guessing not.
No, I didn't say anything like that. Actually, I
don't use IMAP myself other than for testing purposes
or when one of my accounts gives me problems when
used as POP.
Sorry, a fellow posted after you saying he had the same problem using his imap and I thought it said David.
Michelle

Mac mail not saving sent messages

I am using IMAP for my mac mail (since I work on several computers). I am on OSX 10.4.11 and mail 2.1.2.
The problem: None of my messages are being stored in the sent folder, even though in preferences it is enabled to do so. Also, when I hold my cursor over the sent folder a pop up message appears that reads "content stored on server. Name of server = INBOX/SENT". And yet, there are no messages on the server. I even looked through my control panel on my web host just to make sure.
Not being able to have a copy of sent messages makes mac mail virtually useless - I can't bcc myself on everything! I'm feeling desperate - anyone out there have any suggestions?

click the SENT folder on the server.. then go to MAILBOX > USE THIS MAIL BOX FOR SENT

Mail not saving sent messages

I've noticed that Mail is not saving my sent messages. I started to notice this yesterday. It's very erratic though. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I have the option selected in preferences to Store Sent Messages on the Server (my .mac account).
Any idea what is going on? I even checked my .mac Sent Mesages folder using WebMail and they're not there either.
John
PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

You're welcome.
With a .Mac or IMAP type account, you can save Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk messages on the server instead of locally on the hard drive.
Messages in a .Mac or IMAP type account's Inbox mailbox remain on the server until deleted from the account's Inbox mailbox or moved from the Inbox mailbox to a user created "On My Mac" mailbox or deleted from the server using webmail access.
You can also create additional mailboxes that will be stored on the server.
Messages in the account's Inbox mailbox and in any other mailboxes stored on the server are synchronized with the Mail.app and with other email clients.
With POP type accounts, received/incoming messages are downloaded by the Mail.app and by other email clients. You can choose when messages are deleted from the server when downloaded by the Mail.app and by other email clients but you cannot store Drafts, Sent, Trash or Junk messages on the server or create any additional mailboxes that are stored on the server.
A .Mac or IMAP type account is beneficial for those who access their email account with multiple computers and want to keep all mailboxes for the account synchronized on each computer.
For example, you have a Desktop at work but also travel with an iBook or PowerBook. If you have a .Mac or IMAP type account and select save Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk messages on the server in Mail on both Macs, all mailboxes for the account will be kept synchronized in Mail on both Macs. Messages sent with the iBook when traveling will be available on the Desktop Mac in the office and vice-versa.

Unable to store sent message on Yahoo server

When I send an email from Mail ( Lion OS Mail) I am unable to store the sent message on the Yahoo server.
I have set up my Yahoo email account as a POP account & I do not see the option of “ Store sent message on the server” as in iCloud email.
The iCloud email is set up as IMAP.
Any help to solve this problem is appreciated

Right with POP Sent emails only show on your local computer unless you are using IMAP and even then it is a setting in the mail program and the IMAP server to store all sent emails on the server. With Gmail they are included in the All Mail folder. But Yahoo is different and only if you have a paid Yahoo account do you have access to their IMAP system.
No way to do that with POP.

HT1277 How do I make Mail remove junk/deleted messages from the server? The only option tht works for me now is the "Remove from server" button at Account Info Messages on server.

How do I make Mail remove junk/deleted messages from the server? The only option tht works for me now is the "Remove from server" button at Account Info > Messages on server. What am I doing wrong?

Mail > Preferences… > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server after retrieving a message

Copy of sent messages?

Is it possible to set up Mail to keep a second copy of a sent message, other than the one in the "Sent" folder? Specifically, I'd like to have a second copy placed into a separate folder. There are other family members who use Mail and who inadvertently delete some of my sent messages when deleting their own, before I've had a chance to go into the Sent folder and manually move the ones I want to keep.
While I know Mail rules don't apply to outgoing mail, I was hoping maybe there was another way to tell it keep a secondary copy of sent messages.
If not, is there anyway to retrieve sent messages if they have been deleted (and also deleted from the Trash folder), other than software like FileSalvage?
Thanks
Michael
iMac PowerPC Mac OS X (10.4.8) iMac 400MHz slot-loading 120GB

Thanks for the input....I don't think that's the right solution for me at this point, but I appreciate the advice.
How about creating a separate computer login/user
account for each family member that uses your
computer so no one else accesses your messages or
email accounts or other any data stored in your Home
folder/directory?
Besides a Smart Mailbox (which is not an actual
mailbox), there is no way that I'm aware of to keep a
2nd copy of sent messages in a separate mailbox and
even if possible, what will prevent other family
members from deleting messages from this 2nd mailbox
also?
Separate computer login accounts without admin
privileges and disabling automatic login is your
answer.

Why can't I get my mail, I get a message "connection to server failed" but I can get on all other web sites. It worked fine until about a month ago.

WHY CAN'T I GET MY MAIL, I GET A MESSAGE 'CONNECTION TO SERVER FAILED" BUT I CAN GET ON ALL OTHER WEB SITES. IT WORKED FINE UNTIL ABOUT A MONTH AGO. I CANCELLED MY ACCOUNT, PUT MY INFO IN AGAIN AND STILL GET THE MESSAGE "CONNECTION TO SERVER FAILED" HELP PLEASE!

have you tried removing and readding the e-mail account? sometimes settings get corrupted or changed on the server end...something computers can sometimes handle better than the mail interface.

I use Yahoo mail - when I attempt to get mail I get the message "Connection to Server Failed."

I use Yahoo mail on my iPad Air - when I attempt to get mail I get the message "Connection to Server Failed."

Try giving your iPad a reset. Hold down the sleep and home keys for about 20 seconds. When you see the silver apple, let go and let it reboot and try again.
Are you trying to access your mail on your regular internet connection or on a new one? I know I have issues accessing my yahoo mail via the mail app if I'm on and AT&T hotspot. But if I use safari to go in via the mobile site (m.yahoo.com) I can access my mail. And yahoo also has their own mail app. So the 'how' may help find the issue.
If it's a new to you hotspot then the best way to fix it may just be to work around it (using safari)
Another thing to do could be to go into the settings, mail, contacts and calendars and delete your yahoo address then exit out, go back in and add the account back. Sometimes things get confuzzled and the best way to fix it is just to start over. Doing this should not effect your mail account, it just deletes it off your device and then adds the info back in.

Can Mail access the sent messages on my POP3 server (webmail)?

Hi there,
I recently got a blackberry, mainly for the email etc. It's all great, but I have stumbled on an issue that I can't figure out:
When I send an email from it, it somehow gets a copy of the sent email into the sent items on my webmail server. But how can I get a copy of my sent messages into my Mac Mail?
In the Mail preferences, I see that there are settings regarding the inbox, but nothing that I have found lets me import messages that I have sent via webmail - or that are in my different webmail "sent items" folders.
Any ideas?
Thanks!!

Blackberry/RIM has their own proprietary email service, so assuming you could access your sent messages, you would need to find out from them how you would do it. Normally, POP mail is not stored on servers, that is when you receive mail it's immediately downloaded to your computer unless you set a flag in your email application to save a copy on the server. Sent mail doesn't originate from your email server, so it's all stored locally. I would presume storing sent mail on a Blackberry wouldn't make a great deal of sense because it would eat a lot of memory space of which there's not a great deal on a cell phone.
Perhaps RIM's mail is IMAP rather than POP where everything is on the server.

Sending mail with Cc and copy in sent message box

Since I have the last OS X 10.6.6 update, I dont receive anymore the Cc copy which I send to myself
and have only the copy of the sent message in the sent box (messages envoyés)
Similarly I cannot send a mail to myself as a verification process of my external mail provider. The copy is stored in the sent copy box, but it doesnt arrive in the in box (boite de reception)
How can I get back to the former situation in which I could send copies to myself or send mail to myself
Thanks for any hint
Claude

The first exception is this:
http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/FAQ.html#norelay
The second exception is probably due to a configuration error
on the client. Turn on session debugging and the protocol
trace will give some clues about what's wrong with the HELO
command.

Mail copying to Sent Messages on IMAP server

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