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Windows Live Mail anomaly with sent items (multiple accounts)
I have Windows Live Mail configured with 2 email accounts - i.e. my Gmail and Yahoo mail accounts. However, whenever I send an email from my Yahoo account it does not appear in the Sent folder of my Yahoo webmail account - instead it shows in the Sent Mail folder of my Gmail webmail account.
The outgoing mail settings for each are different - the Gmail account uses smtp.gmail.com and the Yahoo account uses smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk, so I would expect emails sent via the Yahoo mail server to be visible when I view my Yahoo account on the web.
I have verified that outgoing Yahoo mails are connecting to the Yahoo SMTP server by deliberately misspelling my username in the outgoing server settings - I got an error message as expected, confirming that it was trying to connect to smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk.
I do have Gmail configured to collect mail from my Yahoo account - does this feature extend to collecting all Sent mail as well as incoming mail, and could this explain why my outgoing Yahoo mail never appears in my Yahoo webmail account, even though it was sent via smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk?