Sent emails from Yahoo or iphone dont appear in sent mail folder on MacBook

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Sent emails from Yahoo or iphone dont appear in sent mail folder on MacBook

Please can someone help? My email account is with Yahoo mail (free one); I can send and receive emails without a problem from Mail on my MacBook. However If i send an email from a browser session in Yahoo mail then the sent email does not appear in my Mail sent folder. Likewise i can send and receive emails on my iphone but the sent emails do not appear in either my Yahoo Sent folder or my Mail sent folder.

MacBook5,1, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jan 19, 2010 1:49 PM

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V.K.

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Jan 19, 2010 2:27 PM in response to Justin99

that's because yahoo only offers POP access. that's a limitation of POP. it only downloads your inbox messages from the server. it does not do any kind of syncing and it does not download or up load sent messages. if you want that you need to switch to an email provider that offers IMAP (yahoo doesn't). IMAP syncs everything with the server so you'll get the same mailboxes contents everywhere you access that account.

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Jan 20, 2010 1:35 AM in response to V.K.

Thank you for your reply. But that is strange as a friend uses Yahoo mail and sent messages from her iphone do appear in the Yahoo sent folder...

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