Sent messages

Question

Hi,
I have two different email accounts (.mac and Gmail), and for some reason my sent messages usually end up in a variety of "Sent" folders that I didn't create (some of them look more like sub-folders) and are not local and that's really confusing when it comes to finding things.
How can I have Mail retrieve my sent intems from different accounts, erase them from the server, and save them all into one, local folder, like Entourage does?
Thank you for your help.
Daniel

Answer 1

FWIW, you cannot always assume your sent messages are not retained
on a remote server, even after they are "deleted" through an email client
app like Mail.
Thanks but this has nothing to do with sending messages via an email client such as the Mail.app with an email account created as a POP type account with the email client.
Yes most ISPs and email account providers allow for saving sent messages on the server along with creating server stored mailboxes when accessing an account via webmail but the provider may support accessing the account as a POP type account only with an email client such as the Mail.app.
My reply was a response to this provided by the OP.
Thanks for your answer. Rigth now, Mail is storing all my sent emails remotely on the servers, and organizing them in separate mailbox under the Sent group.
Messages sent by an email account which is accessed as a POP type account with an email client cannot be stored on the server by the email client and any Sent mailbox or server stored mailboxes created via webmail access are not accessible by the email client.
I don't know if .Mac accounts honor Mail requests to not store sent
mail on the server when the account is set up as a POP one -- I
don't use .Mac & the documentation appears unclear on this, so
I would like to know what users actually see in this case.
Any email account that is accessed as a POP type account with the Mail.app or with any email client cannot store sent messages on the server - or I should say, messages sent by the account when using an email client cannot be stored on the server, which does not apply when accessing the account via webmail access.
The account itself is not a "POP type account" -- that is a protocol
for accessing its contents.
Exactly - this is a protocol for accessing its contents with an email client only and since it is a protocol, the "POP type account" protocol is the same with any email client and cannot be changed.
A .Mac account can be created/accessed with the Mail.app as a .Mac, IMAP or POP type account. A .Mac type account is really an IMAP type account and behaves in the same way or the same protocol.
You can access a .Mac account as an IMAP or POP type account with other email clients that support both account types or protocols.
If you want to save sent messages on the server when accessing the account via the Mail.app, you need to create the account as a .Mac or IMAP type account and when accessing the account with another email client that supports the IMAP protocol, as an IMAP type account.