Where is sent mail stored when using reply in user email area?

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SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version Fedora 33
Webmin version 2.202

Hi all,
I hope I’m in the correct place?

My desktop failed so I am using the read email in Webmin (my user mailbox), when I reply to any of those, the replies are sent correctly, but I can’t find where they are being stored, certainly not in any of the postfix “subfolders” in my user name.
What am I missing?
Any help gratefully received :slight_smile:
Thanks, Paul
UPDATE: oops, meant Fedora 33

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Should be in the maildir folder.
I’m using virtualmin and everything is stored under home.
Webmin I’m not sure. so do a search for maildir

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Thanks Stefan,
I had checked, but I did check all those folders again, all incoming mail is correctly stored, but no outgoing mail.
There was outgoing mail from my desktop in the sent IMAP folder.

I did a search for maildir from the root folder, all it showed was what I had checked.

I wonder if the “read email” module puts sent mail somewhere else?

Thanks, Paul

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You using dovecot to read emails?
all you folders should be in the Maildir

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also have a look in here and select the user

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in there you should be able the select the sent folder from the dropdown.

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Thanks Stefan,
yes, using Dovecot, all my settings are default.

Yes, using postfix select module “user mailboxes” I can browse all the users (only 3 with mail) checking all of them my sent mails in the “sent” folder" are not recorded, if fact, I have viewed all the folders without my sent mail (from this module) being found.

Thanks for all your help, I will leave this for the moment as a puzzle, as I think there must be a problem somewhere I can’t solve (possibly a setup issue?).
Cheers.

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@pauld,

Are you using Usermin to send email, or an Email Client?

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Hi,

I am using Compose in the read mail module, or, viewing an email in that module and then clicking “Reply”.

Thanks, Paul

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@pauld,

In that case, as previously mentioned above, the message should be getting archived in the “.Sent” folder of the users “Maildir” folder.

Does this user have enough disk space available to them?

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Thanks tpnsolutions,

Yes this IS where sent mail should be.
No limits on user storage, used total space is 29% (but good point, I hadn’t considered that).
It may be that I have a corrupted file? (or something similar)
Thanks.

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Why not Usermin?

Webmin won’t be configured very well for use as a mail client. It can do everything Usermin can do in that context (I think, I’m unaware of any divergence), but if you’ve installed Usermin alongside Virtualmin it’ll be configured as well as we can for use as a regular mail client, and it will use LDAP to interact with the mail folders (or you can configure it that way manually, if not alongside Virtualmin). I’m not confident Webmin even saves sent mail, anywhere, by default, though I’m sure it could be configured to do so.

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Thanks to everyone who helped.
I have an answer; neither Postfix (or Dovecot) save sent mails, it not their job!
The client will usually store those.

Having said that, there is a post on Stackoverflow which offers some settings to allow Postfix to save the sent mails;

It’s a little embarrassing that I didn’t know that :frowning:
Cheers, Paul

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Just use Usermin, which can and does save sent mail. I wouldn’t do anything unusual, if you can avoid it.

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