[imp] To field in sent folder contains From address for some mails

Jens Pranaitis pranaitis at phil.hhu.de
Wed Sep 5 09:13:35 UTC 2012


On 09/05/2012 11:07 AM, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
> Quoting Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:
>
>> Citeren Jens Pranaitis <pranaitis at phil.hhu.de>:
>>
>>> I've got another (minor) problem with imp 5.0.23. When I open the
>>> sent folder the "To" column contains the From address if the message
>>> wasn't written with imp. A screenshot showing the problem can be
>>> found at http://i.imgur.com/dAERI.png and the source of a message
>>> causing this problem is attached to this mail. I'd really appreciate
>>> if someone could point me in the right direction for debugging this
>>> issue.
>>
>> Most likely this address is not one of your identities configured in
>> IMP, so this is the expected behavior. See
>> http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/11347 as well.
>
> This is correct.  Since we can't verify the sending address, we can't
> assume it was sent by the current user (e.g. *any* message can be moved
> into the Sent mailbox, regardless of whether the user sent it or not).

Ok thanks. I'll try to explain that to our users.
(IMHO the To column should display the To-address regardless of who it 
was sent by)

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