Subject: copies of sent messages

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:02:55 -0500 (EST)

Hi ... I used PINE about three years ago and am thrilled that my sysop 
finally made this new version available to me (I had used mm and hated 
it). Anyway, the last time I used PINE, messages I sent used to be 
automatically filed in a Sent Messages folder. Somehow this does not 
happen in this new version.   I either want that, or at least would like 
to be a cc on each of my outgoing messages, so that I get a copy for my 
files. My sysop is not "pine-literate" so she can't help me. How 
can I set up a "Sent Messages" folder, or arrange to be an automatic cc 
on all my messages?

can you help?

Many thanks.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 10:06:22 +0100 (BST)

You need to set up a "default FCC" folder name.  This will then be used to
fill in a value for the "Fcc:" header for every message you send (ie,
it'll be the default value for this header).

The "Fcc:" header names the folder to be used for a "File Carbon Copy" of
the outgoing message ... sort of like photocopying a letter you've written
and putting the copy in your filing cabinet.

To set up the default go to Pine's Setup Configuration screen ("S" then
"C" from the Main Menu), then look for a variable called "default-fcc",
then set a value for it.  For UNIX Pine the suggested folder name is
"sent-mail":

	default-fcc              = sent-mail

When you use Pine for the first time in each new month it will offer to
change your sent-mail folder, renaming the current one to end with last
month's name (and then offer to delete any older such folder in order to
save disk space).

Some hints that may be useful:

*  If you set up a default-fcc value then every message you send out will
default to being recorded in your nominated folder.  You can over-ride
this for a particular message you are composing by putting the cursor on a
header line and typing ^R to see the Rich Headers, then delete the folder
name from the "Fcc:" header field.

*  Alternatively you may decide to NOT save every outgoing message
automatically (by setting the default-fcc variable to "")m and use the
above trick in reverse to specify an Fcc folder for those occasional
message you do want to save a copy of.

* You can give a replacement Fcc value mail to for a particular
correspondent, overriding the default-fcc value, by adding that person to
your Address Book along with an Fcc value for them.  Any message sent with
that person listed as the first recipient will get stored in the specific
Fcc folder instead (at least, I think that's how it works:-)

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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