Subject: question about sent-mail folder

From: [email-masked] (Simone Shoemaker)
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 00:32:00 GMT

I notice that every time I send a message, it gets copied to a folder 
called "sent mail". Is there any purpose behind this?  As as far as I'm 
concerned, I don't need to keep those messages around. Is there a way to 
tell the Pine to quit doing this - or at least ask me whether I want to 
save a particular message?

Simone

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 10:24:08 -0400

> save a particular message?

    What you are describing is Pine's default action.  If you do not want 
to save any particular message, put the cursor on the Fcc line in the 
header and press ^K to omit the value.  Pine will then not save that 
message.

    If you do not want Pine to save _any_ outgoing message (not a good 
idea, in my exerience), go into Setup (off the main menu) and 
Configuration.  On the first screen set the default-fcc value to two 
double quotes (nothing in between them).

Paul
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From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 22:24:33 -0700

> save a particular message?

Check out the following option under Setup/Config from the pine main menu:

				Ian

>From unix-pine online help:

>         OPTION: Default-FCC (File Carbon Copy)
>
> This value specifies where a copy of outgoing mail should be saved.  If
> this is not a path name, it will be in the default collection for saves. 
> Any valid folder specification, local or IMAP, is allowed.  This default
> folder carbon copy only applies when the fcc-rule-name (see later in this
> configuration screen) is set to use the default folder.  Unix Pine default
> is normally "sent-mail" in the default folder collection. PC-Pine default
> is "SENTMAIL" (normally stored as SENTMAIL.MTX) 
>
> To suppress saving of outgoing mail, set: default-fcc=""  
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> FOR MORE INFORMATION: From the Main Menu, select "L FOLDER LIST" and press
> "?" for Help... Look for the section "Valid Folder Names".

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From: [email-masked] (Trey Harris)
Date: 6 Jun 1995 17:32:54 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Simone Shoemaker <[email-masked]> wrote:
>called "sent mail". Is there any purpose behind this?

Yep, there's a purpose.  I often get mail from people whose email address 
I don't recognize, saying things like, "Yes, please do that for me."  I 
scratched my head and (before Pine) had to reply to the message saying "I 
don't remember what mail I sent out that you are responding to."

I've kept every piece of sent mail since April of 1989.  I don't often 
have to look at them, but when I do, it can be a lifesaver, since it's 
obviously something I've totally forgotten and needed to write down. :)
-- 
Trey Harris                              http://sunsite.unc.edu/harris
  System Administrator, Project Isis, Office of Information Technology
                       The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 22:24:33 -0700

Ian