Subject: Re: removing those "sentmail" files?

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 11:01:56 -0400

On 11 Oct 1995, david romano wrote:

> Is there a way to disable the saving of "sentmail" files or redirecting it
> to a global one that I can purge in a crontab every night? [...]

    Saving of sent-messages is under your control.  If you wish, you can 
set Pine up so that no outgoing message is saved unless you explicitly 
direct otherwise.  Assuming you are using version 3.91, just go into 
Setup/Config.  On the first screen is a field, "default-fcc:".  If you 
set this to null, Pine should not save messages unless you tell it 
otherwise when composing.  In this case, setting to null may mean either 
two double-quote marks abutted, or it might mean two double-quote marks 
with a space in between, I don't recall which.  You might have to 
experiment slightly.

Paul
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From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:53:53 +0100

On 11 Oct 1995, david romano wrote:

> to a global one that I can purge in a crontab every night? or how about a
> script to go through each users dir and kill that "sentmail" file?  These
> are getting pretty big! How about having the file overwrite itself at least
> - without appending to it - then it wouldn't grow out of control??
>...

If you want to disable it then make sure in your pine configuration

	default-fcc = <Empty Value>

i.e., when you setup your configuration and change its value, ONLY enter a 
blank space.

Of course, you can give it any folder name you like.  Hope this helps...