Saving sent mail messages to an IMAP folder automatically

I am having the same exact problem ... can't seem to find any option to save sent messages to an IMAP folder, or even to automatically move the Sent Items folder to the IMAP server. Would appreciate any tips or tricks ...

Thanks!

"Outlook User" wrote:

By default, outlook 2003 saves sent mail to a folder called "Sent
Mail". This makes sense if you are not storing sent messages on a
server. However, I use an IMAP account, and store all mail - both
saved and sent - on an IMAP server so that I can access it easily from
any machine with an IMAP client. Outlook has no problem with
accessing my IMAP folders. However, I can't get it to save a copy of
my sent mail in the sent-mail directory on my IMAP server. Outlook
Express is able to do this by checking "Store special folders on IMAP
server", and giving Outlook Express the name of my sent-mail folder in
the Sent Items path text box. Mozilla Thunderbird and Pine can all do
this with no problem. I can't find any way to do it in Outlook 2003
though. How can I do this in Outlook 2003?

Microsoft Outlook team: if you're reading this, this is a show stopper
for me!

Thanks!
Michael

I just figured out a 'round-about' way to do it using the 'Create a Rule ...' (under Tools -- Rules and alerts ...)

Create a new rule (not from a template) that after sending any message it should be copied to the appropriate folder on your IMAP server.

Hope that helps!

"Outlook User" wrote:

By default, outlook 2003 saves sent mail to a folder called "Sent
Mail". This makes sense if you are not storing sent messages on a
server. However, I use an IMAP account, and store all mail - both
saved and sent - on an IMAP server so that I can access it easily from
any machine with an IMAP client. Outlook has no problem with
accessing my IMAP folders. However, I can't get it to save a copy of
my sent mail in the sent-mail directory on my IMAP server. Outlook
Express is able to do this by checking "Store special folders on IMAP
server", and giving Outlook Express the name of my sent-mail folder in
the Sent Items path text box. Mozilla Thunderbird and Pine can all do
this with no problem. I can't find any way to do it in Outlook 2003
though. How can I do this in Outlook 2003?

Microsoft Outlook team: if you're reading this, this is a show stopper
for me!

Thanks!
Michael