Subject: Automatic Outgoing Message Save

From: [email-masked] (Will Estes)
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 01:59:18 -0800 (PST)

How do I configure pine so that outgoing mail will be saved in my
Mail folder in a file with the same name as the recipient, rather
than in the generic "sent-mail"?

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Thanks,
Will Estes              Internet: [email-masked]
U.S. Computer           Saratoga, CA  95070

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From: Ian Leiman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 15:11:13 +0300 (EETDST)

> than in the generic "sent-mail"?

^R for rich headers IN THE HEADER AREA, then edit the Fcc:
there is no mechanism that would automatically insert anything else than
"sent-mail" there (or default-fcc variable)
this mechanism would be difficult to implement:
- you need a rule syntax in .pinerc and code to parse it
- you need code to parse the To: header and match against rules
- you need some rules to determine where to save when there are multiple
  recipients, and all have defined save-folders, multiple fcc copies don't
  make sense

elm has this feature, enabled by setting 'savename', but it only checks
the name up to @. It is possible that different people have same login
names in different systems, so this is dumb. Also in elm the folder name
is the same as login name, you can't change this, which is dumb. Suppose
you want to save mail addressed to a certain group of people to same
folder. Of course you can link the folder to multiple names, but this
gets confusing in the long run. And your folder list will be a mess.

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Ian Leiman, M.Sc.             phone +358 0 5104 4453, fax +358 0 5104 4764
[email-masked]
homepage: http://dshp02.trs.ntc.nokia.com:3000/~leiman/index.html

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 08:23:47 -0800 (PST)

A slightly less ambitious version of this is on our list of future
enhancements.  It may or may not make it into 3.90, but it should come
soon... 

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