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Thunderbird not creating Sent folder on new empty account

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Hello,

where should I look as Thunderbird email client does not create the Sent Items folder on server when a new empty mail account is added and a mail is sent.

The sent mail is instead stored on local disk in Sent Items.

On the server side (postfix, dovecot) the mail folder is created under /var/mail/vhosts/domain/user where other items such as inbox is added and incoming mails are stored there. Sent items was just not created.

For comparison I tried the same with Apple Mail client and it added a 'Sent Items' folder under the server path, which if I manually set it in Thunderbird will be used correctly for sent mails.

What could go wrong as the server path /var/mail/vhosts/domain/user is correctly writable and the inbox can be created and also the apple client however creates also the sent items folder.

With some other servers with identical setup I have not had this issue.

Hello, where should I look as Thunderbird email client does not create the Sent Items folder on server when a new empty mail account is added and a mail is sent. The sent mail is instead stored on local disk in Sent Items. On the server side (postfix, dovecot) the mail folder is created under /var/mail/vhosts/domain/user where other items such as inbox is added and incoming mails are stored there. Sent items was just not created. For comparison I tried the same with Apple Mail client and it added a 'Sent Items' folder under the server path, which if I manually set it in Thunderbird will be used correctly for sent mails. What could go wrong as the server path /var/mail/vhosts/domain/user is correctly writable and the inbox can be created and also the apple client however creates also the sent items folder. With some other servers with identical setup I have not had this issue.

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did you configure the account as IMAP or POP in Thunderbird?

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