emails gathering up in 'Local Folders->outbox'

[test]

On Monday, 16 September 2019 21:54:21 CEST Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Montag, 16. September 2019 18:19:25 CEST test wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > why are emails gathering up in 'Local Folders->outbox'?  I thought the
> > idea
> > was to queue them there until they are being sent.
> 
> Yes, that's the idea. Once they were sent they should be moved to the Local
> Folders->sent-mail (unless you have configured a different folder for sent
> mail).

Each of the IMAP accounts is supposed to have its own folder for sent mail.  
It won't make sense to put all messages that were sent into the same folder.

As far as I can see, the messages are being put into the sent folder as I 
expected, depending on their IMAP accounts.  Since this is no more than an 
operation with which the message is stored on the IMAP server by the client, 
it doesn't say anything about the delivery of the message.

> Are you sure that the emails located in outbox actually have been sent. If
> sending failed, then on selection of an email you should see a note stating
> that sending failed and why it failed.

At least some of the messages have been sent --- otherwise you wouldn't have 
received the post I made to the list, and others.  Unfortunately, it doesn't 
show in the list of messages within the outbox what the status of any of the 
messages are; each message needs to carry its status information.

Usually, there's a notification that the message was sent, which may be true 
or not.  Nothing happens when I use 'File->Send Queued Messages'.  When I look 
at 'File->Delayed Messages ...', a window comes up that says that there are no 
messages waiting.

> You can retry sending the messages via File->Send Queued Messages.

There is an increasing number of messages in the outbox, and nothing happens 
when I do that.