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Question

Duplicate mail messages in Sent items

Jun 22, 2015 5:16AM PDT

I am using a Hotmail account in the Apple Mail app. Why does every email I send out appear twice in the Sent items under hotmail?

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Not sure why this would be happening but,
Jun 22, 2015 2:54PM PDT

given that Hotmail is a Microsoft endeavor, it shouldn't cause any surprise.

Is Hotmail the only account you have set up in the Mail app?

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There are too many prior discussions.
Jun 22, 2015 3:04PM PDT
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/32616/how-can-i-get-rid-of-duplicate-sent-draft-and-trash-folders-in-my-imap-account isn't about Hotmail but is about imap.

The mail app logs the sent item, the imap service shows it sent and you get 2. To fix it, change one thing.

"Check to be sure that you don't have the check box set to save a copy of sent items in the sent folder. Using the hotmail server for sending mail does that for you."
http://techpotato.ca/2013/getting-hotmail-imap-to-work-on-a-mac/