IMAP sent email problem

[Varun]

I need to save a copy of all outbound emails on an IMAP
account to the remote server, so that I can access them
from other clients. All other clients that I've used
(including Microsoft's own Outlook Express) have some way
of specifying an outbound folder. As far as I see in
Outlook 2003, the only way to do so is to create a rule
that copies all emails to the sent-items folder. However,
all the email in sent-items folder now appear to be unread.
How can I create a rule that will mark all email in that
folder as read? Alternatively, is there another, easier
way, to copy all outbound IMAP email to a sent-items folder
on the remote server?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I need to save a copy of all outbound emails on an IMAP
account to the remote server, so that I can access them
from other clients. All other clients that I've used
(including Microsoft's own Outlook Express) have some way
of specifying an outbound folder. As far as I see in
Outlook 2003, the only way to do so is to create a rule
that copies all emails to the sent-items folder.

Yup. That's the way it works for IMAP.

However, all the email in sent-items folder now appear to be unread.

Yup. That's the way it works for IMAP.

How can I create a rule that will mark all email in that
folder as read?

Not for IMAP.