Phpmailer: [Question] Save sent mail

Created on 11 Dec 2016 · 10Comments · Source: PHPMailer/PHPMailer

Is there a way to move the mail after sending over SMTP to the folder "Sent" on the mailserver?
For example, if I write an email with the mobile phone or on the PC, after sending the mail, its already in the Sent-Folder.

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KSas

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I have created an example on how to do this because I needed it myself.

Would you accept a pull request @Synchro?

NiklasBr on 23 May 2017

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Sending mail via SMTP has no concept of folders. In fact, after sending a mail via SMTP it does not exist anymore on the sending side, unless you take special actions (like using IMAP to store a copy of that message sent via SMTP).

I suggest you take a look at IMAP and Email :)

ooxi on 20 Dec 2016

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I have created an example on how to do this because I needed it myself.

Would you accept a pull request @Synchro?

NiklasBr on 23 May 2017

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Sure, that example looks good.

Synchro on 23 May 2017

I created a pull request: #1116

NiklasBr on 2 Aug 2017

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New pull request: #1117

NiklasBr on 2 Aug 2017

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@NiklasBr Thanks mate - good work bro. We need this in PHPMailer!!!

MESWEB on 1 Jan 2018

Is this pull request done? The example looks like for gmail only, how can we use it for any emails, for example, email addresses created in cpanel?

akadebnath on 3 Aug 2019

Yes, this PR is done. Make it work on any other IMAP service by changing the hostname of the server you connect to.

Synchro on 3 Aug 2019

I am using PHPMailer 6.0.3
The email is sent correcly to the recipient, but not shown in the sent folder of sender.
I must be missing a couple of line of codes. Please help me configure it correctly.

This is my code:

<?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$fromEmail='email hosted in cpanel';
$MailTo='[email protected]';
$Subject='Contact meessage from your website';
$Body='<html><head>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello</p>
<p>There is a new contact messagefrom Github</p>
<p>Hi, We have an answer to your question.</p>
</body></html>';

$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 3;
$mail->CharSet  = 'UTF-8';
$mail->Host = 'SMTP outgoing server';
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = $fromEmail;
$mail->Password = '********';
$mail->setFrom($fromEmail, 'GitHub');   
$mail->addAddress($MailTo);
$mail->addReplyTo($fromEmail, 'GitHub');
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $Subject;
$mail->Body    = $Body;
$mail->send();

?>

akadebnath on 4 Aug 2019

Whether this happens automatically is up to your mail server, but many do not do it. The way to do it manually is to upload a copy of the message via IMAP. This is outside PHPMailer’s scope, but look at the gmail example provided to see how to do that.

Synchro on 4 Aug 2019

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