error copying message to sent folder

[Matthew Flaschen]

anthony baldwin wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 
>> anthony baldwin wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> For some reason, Mozilla is unable to copy sent messages to my ¨sent¨ 
>>> folder.
>>> (Appears to be sending msgs fine.)
>>> I´ve never seen this before, and have made no alteration to Mozilla.
>>> Anyone have further information?
>>>    
>>>
>> I occasionally get that in Mozilla Thunderbird, but only for newsgroups.
>> Exactly what happens when you send a message?  Do you get an error, or
>> does the copy just silently not occur?
>>  
>>
> 
> Well, here´s the weird thing:
> When I send the message, the message apparently is sent, but it
> hangs for a long time, displaying the dialog box with
> ¨copying message to sent folder¨.
> Then, eventually, after maybe 5 minutes, I get an error message saying that
> it could not successfully copy to said ¨sent¨ folder.
> But, later, when I checked, the sent messages were, indeed, in the sent 
> folder.
> And, this is only happening to one pop account (for my domain, 
> baldwinlinguas.com, my translator business).
> It does not happen with my ISP provided account, nor for email on 
> another domain I own (photodharma.com,
> my art and photo site).
> Anyway, whatever was happening, it seems to have disappeared.

That's good, for now...

> Weird...
> These things have a mind of their own.

Yeah.  I'm happy with Thunderbird, but it can be a bit sketch.  Like,
sometimes it doesn't update the message count on a folder until you open
the folder.

Best,

Matt Flaschen