Bluehost: PHPMailer save sent message in Sent Items - php

Question

I'm trying to send an email with the help of PHPMailer, everything works fine except now I want to have a copy of the send mail in Sent Items.
The website is currently hosted in Bluehost. I tried following the example of PHPMailer - GMail but I'm stuck on which path should I specify.
From the example of PHPMailer - GMail the path for Sent Items is:
{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}[Gmail]/Sent Mail
I don't know what path should I specify. Everything works fine in my code, only the path for the sent item is missing.
<?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
require 'PHPMailer/src/Exception.php';
require 'PHPMailer/src/PHPMailer.php';
require 'PHPMailer/src/SMTP.php';
$username = 'john#mydomain.com';
$password = 'password';
function save_mail( $mail ) {
//path or folder for sent items
$path = "{imap.mydomain.com:993/imap/ssl}[...]/..."; //what exactly is the path for my sent item.
//Tell your server to open an IMAP connection using the same username and password as you used for SMTP
$imapStream = imap_open( $path, $mail->Username, $mail->Password );
$result = imap_append( $imapStream, $path, $mail->getSentMIMEMessage() );
imap_close( $imapStream );
return $result;
}
function send(){
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER;
$mail->Host = 'mail.mydomain.com';
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = $username;
$mail->Password = $password;
$mail->setFrom( $username, 'John Doe' );
$mail->addAddress( 'someone#example.com', 'David Doe' );
$mail->Subject = 'TEST SUBJECT';
$mail->msgHTML('<b>TEST</b>');
$mail->AltBody = 'TEST';
if ( !$mail->send() ) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
if (save_mail($mail)) {
echo "Message saved!";
}
}
}
?>

Answer 1

Thanks to Max for the idea of imap_list function.
This gives me the list of a path for my mail directories.
$host = '{imap.mydomain.com/ssl/novalidate-cert}';
$mail = 'support#mydomain.com';
$pass = 'password';
$mbox = imap_open($host, $mail, $pass, OP_HALFOPEN)
or die("can't connect: " . imap_last_error());
$list = imap_list($mbox, $host, "*");
if (is_array($list)) {
foreach ($list as $val) {
echo imap_utf7_decode($val) . "\n";
}
} else {
echo "imap_list failed: " . imap_last_error() . "\n";
}
imap_close($mbox);
?>
using the {imap.mydomain.com} or {imap.mydomain.com:993/imap/ssl}gives me an error of:
can't connect: Certificate failure for imap.mydomain.com: Server
name does not match certificate: /OU=Domain Control
Validated/OU=Hosted by BlueHost.Com, INC/OU=PositiveSSL
Wildcard/CN=*.bluehost.com
Certificate issue, luckily I found this question and I end up using the following host:
{imap.mydomain.com/ssl/novalidate-cert}
and the path I'm looking to forward the sent mail into sent items is:
{imap.mydomain.com/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX.Sent