Sent e-mails also appearing in Inbox - Page 3

Badders · 01-03-2011, 16:54

As mentioned above, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the client. If I send an e-mail from web-mail, two e-mails are sent out. One to the recipient and one back to the account it was sent from. If you're using a pc client (Outlook or Thunderbird for example) this would be received into your Inbox.

qasdfdsaq · 01-03-2011, 18:28

Sorry, got confused with the other people posting similar problems in the same thread. I'll give this another look when I get home, but I don't use POP3 so the usefulness may be limited.

Is there are particular reason you're using POP3 instead of IMAP?

Badders · 02-03-2011, 12:22

Mainly because I know it and use it work. I haven't got time to gen up on IMAP and it used to work fine with VM. It's all gone a bit strange since the move to Google mail.

Davidchross · 10-08-2015, 17:22

I wonder if I can revise this thread. I am interested because my reading of it is that in certain circumstances if you use POP3 and you send an email from Outlook using the Virgin SMTL server, a copy of the sent email is retained on your PC and also on the sent folder ion the Virgin server where you can see it by going into Virgin webmail. Is that correct?

Many thanks.

Kushan · 10-08-2015, 21:03

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Originally Posted by Davidchross

I wonder if I can revise this thread. I am interested because my reading of it is that in certain circumstances if you use POP3 and you send an email from Outlook using the Virgin SMTL server, a copy of the sent email is retained on your PC and also on the sent folder ion the Virgin server where you can see it by going into Virgin webmail. Is that correct?

Many thanks.

I think this very much depends on your settings, there are some Virgin settings that won't store a copy on the webmail and some that will.

It has nothing to do with your POP3 (incoming) settings and everything to do with your SMTP (outgoing) settings.

That said, if you use IMAP then it might synchronise the sent emails regardless.

qasdfdsaq · 11-08-2015, 11:40

I believe this has long been a feature of the GMail platform, if you send via a Google-powered SMTP server it'll place a copy of sent messages into your sentbox.

Kushan · 11-08-2015, 11:52

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

I believe this has long been a feature of the GMail platform, if you send via a Google-powered SMTP server it'll place a copy of sent messages into your sentbox.

This is correct, however the problem is that Virgin has different SMTP settings to support the old legacy blueyonder/ntl accounts and they don't always go through Google. It never even used to require a log in to use, it just checked if you were on a BY/NTL IP. I'm not sure if that's been "Fixed" though but if not and someone's still using the unauthenticated SMTP server, there's no way to know which account sent the email.

heero_yuy · 13-08-2015, 10:34

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Originally Posted by Kushan

This is correct, however the problem is that Virgin has different SMTP settings to support the old legacy blueyonder/ntl accounts and they don't always go through Google. It never even used to require a log in to use, it just checked if you were on a BY/NTL IP. I'm not sure if that's been "Fixed" though but if not and someone's still using the unauthenticated SMTP server, there's no way to know which account sent the email.

I just had a look at one of my old ntlworld.com accounts and there's no mail in the webmail sent box after 2012 which is the year they migrated it to google IIRC. I am using SSL and authentication on the SMTP server (virginmedia.com) settings

Kushan · 13-08-2015, 14:15

In that case, it implies that Virgin's SMTP servers bypass Google entirely.