[imp] How to set 'Sent Items' to be the default Sent Mail Special Folder

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von L. D. James <ljames at apollo3.com>:

> On 08/18/2014 11:20 AM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>>
>> Zitat von L. D. James <ljames at apollo3.com>:
>>
>>> Can someone help me with how to set "Sent Items" to be the special  
>>> folder where copies of sent mail will be saved?
>>>
>>> Looking at the prefs.php it appears that it would be a matter of  
>>> editing the backends.php which I initial did.  This didn't change  
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Edited backends.php:
>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>>    'special_mboxes' => array(
>>>         IMP_Mailbox::MBOX_DRAFTS => 'Drafts',
>>>         IMP_Mailbox::MBOX_SENT => 'Sent Items',
>>>         IMP_Mailbox::MBOX_SPAM => 'Spam',
>>>         IMP_Mailbox::MBOX_TEMPLATES => 'Templates',
>>>         IMP_Mailbox::MBOX_TRASH => 'Trash',
>>>         IMP_Mailbox::MBOX_USERSPECIAL => array(
>>>             'Example' => _("Example Special Mailbox")
>>>         )
>>>    ),
>>>    'autocreate_special' => true,
>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> When that didn't work I modified the pref.php to:
>>
>> Don't edit prefs.php. Read the comments.
>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>> // sent mail mailbox
>>> $_prefs['sent_mail_folder'] = array(
>>>    // NOTE: Localization of this name for display purposes is done
>>>    // automatically. To change the default value based on the backend, see
>>>    // the 'special_mboxes' option in config/backends.php.
>>>    'value' => 'Sent Items'
>>> );
>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> The sent mail is still saved to "sent" instead of "Sent Items".
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any input.
>>>
>>> -- L. James
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> L. D. james
>>> ljames at apollo3.com
>>> www.apollo3.com/~ljames
>>
>> Changing identity preferences (like sent_mail_folder) only works if  
>> user don't have identities created yet, or create a new identity.
>>
> Thanks, Jan.  I read the comments and spent a couple of days trying  
> to do it without editing the conf.php file.  I edited the conf.php  
> file as last result to see if it made any difference.
>
> As I mentioned, I kept the backup and will restore the conf.php file  
> to it's default.
>
> I would appreciate it if you can tell me how to remove the user's  
> identities so that the defaults will be the say I have it set in the  
> backends.php configuration... if that is right.
>
> I really appreciate your input.
>
> -- L. James
>
> -- 
> L. D. James
> ljames at apollo3.com
> www.apollo3.com/~ljames

This hasn't anything to do with either conf.php or backends.php. Read  
more carefully. You have to change prefs.local.php.
And to reset identities, you have to drop the rows from the  
horde_prefs table (if you are using SQL prefs) with the "identity"  
value in pref_name.

-- 
Jan Schneider
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