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Messages in the sent folder of the email client

by Mahmood Naderan - Sunday, June 28, 2020, 10:07 PM

When I setup a Gmail smtp, I see that all emails sent from moodle are also copied to the sent folder in the email account. That means, if someone send a message to someone else, the plain text message is dropped in the sent folder in Gmail.

So, those who manage email account actually can read private messages. I don't think that is problem with Gmail, because the message is issued and sent from moodle.

Any idea about that?

Re: Messages in the sent folder of the email client

by Visvanath Ratnaweera - Sunday, June 28, 2020, 10:44 PM

Moodle only issues (MUA - not Moodle User Association, rather Mail User Agent) e-mail. It needs a MTA to send mail - which is in your case Gmail. So that account must have been set to keep a copy, likely by Cc or Bcc.

Either way, the administrator can see "private" messages in Moodle.

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Re: Messages in the sent folder of the email client

by Andrew Nicols - Monday, June 29, 2020, 9:25 AM

This is a 'feature' of gmail. Whenever you send any e-mail via gmail SMTP, it will appear in your Sent items.

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Re: Messages in the sent folder of the email client

by Mahmood Naderan - Tuesday, June 30, 2020, 12:40 AM

OK thank you very much. I will search for that. I didn't find an option for that.

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