Guys, I currently want to listen to the emails I send and do some processing with the emails I send. But at the moment I have encountered some difficulties, I am using QQ mailbox, trying the file names of various sent folders. For example, “Sent”, “SENT”, “Sent Folder”, “Sent”, “Sent Items” cannot listen to the emails I send. Can IMAP nodes listen to sent emails? When I’m using the same node to listen to my inbox, it works fine.
It works the same with any folder: if the message is already marked as read, it won’t detect it. This logic is inherent to the node’s design and common to many IMAP providers, including Outlook, Gmail, and standard servers.
The n8n IMAP node can’t “listen” to the Sent folder under typical conditions, because the emails there are already marked as read. You would only be able to detect them if your server saved sent messages in Sent as unread, or if you implemented a strategy that moved or copied messages to a specially configured unread folder.