Kmail DOES send my mail, but does NOT save it to the local folder 'sent-mail'.

[Nils Kassube]

Bas G. Roufs in English wrote:
> At present, I am working at the partition of my main system: a fresh
> install of Kubuntu 13.10 along with KDE 4.11.5.  Ever since a few
> weeks, something weird happens when sending a mail message from
> Kmail/ Kontact. Whenever doing so, the message gets stuck in the
> local folder 'outbox' and shows the following header:
> 
> 'Sending succeeded, but failed to move the message to the sent-mail
> folder. No items found'.
> 
> However, when checking IMAP or webmail folders like 'sent-messages' or
> 'all messages', I can see that such a message has been send.
> 
> For the time being, I simply manually move each sent message from
> 'outbox' to 'sent-mail'.   However, I would appreciate to more
> structurally solve this little problem.

AIUI, outbox and sent-mail are special folders and it may be a problem 
with the way they are marked as such special folders - sorry, I can't 
tell you any details. Unless someone else on this list can help you 
further, I would suggest to ask about the problem on the kdepim-users 
list: <https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users>.

> That's why, I have checked
> the terminal when sending a test message. After opening the terminal,
> I simply gave in the command 'kmail'.
> 
> After confirming this command by hitting the ENTER-button, I got the
> following feedback:
> QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before
> QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.

Ignore that message - it looks like a debug message for the developers 
and I have seen it for other well working applications as well.

> Is it useful to write a bug report somewhere?

You can file a bug report at <https://bugs.kde.org/> but then you should 
better run the latest kmail version which is available from the kubuntu-
backports-ppa <https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/backports>.


Nils