Subject: Help.

From: "Ravi S. Bhagat" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 06:47:33 -0400 (EDT)

Dear administrator,

I'm a new user of Pine mail s/w. Iam using pine ver 3.94. The problem I am
facing is that whenever I send a mail. The mail goes but the mail is not
stored in any folder or file. I want to read my sent-mails for future
ref.
Kindly help immediately, (if possible ).
Thanks and Regards.
Ravi S. Bahagat

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 12:18:13 +0100 (BST)

Whenever you start Pine you see its Main Menu screen.  There's a very
useful option on there called "Setup".  If you use this, followed by "C"
(Configuration) you will find the Setup Configuration screen.

In this screen are lots of different variables and options you can use to
alter Pine's behaviour and appearance.  Each one has help information
available for it: just put your cursor onto the one you want to know about
and type "?" (Get Help -- it's in the menu of available commands at the
bottom of the screen).

The variable you are particularly interested in is called "default-fcc".
("Fcc" stands for "File Carbon Copy", and lets you automatically save a
copy of every message you send into a folder.  See the help for details.)

As far as I recall, Pine actually defaults to using a copy of every
message you send.  For UNIX Pine the folder these are put into is called
"sent-mail", whilst for PC-Pine it's "sentmail" (if memory serves).

You may like to check that copies aren't already being saved in such a
folder for you.  Use the "L" (List Folders) command at the Main Menu (or
most other places) and look for a "sent-mail" or "sentmail" folder).

However it may be that your Systems Manager has changed the default
setting, perhaps in order to conserve disk space.  As long as they haven't
"fixed" this value you can override this with your own value for the
option (I suggest using "sent-mail" for UNIX Pine or "sentmail" if you are
using PC-Pine).

Finally a hint for the future... when asking for assistance in this
world-wide discussion forum please use a more meaningful summary of your
problem for the Subject string.  "Help" doesn't really convey much!
Something like "Keeping copies of messages sent out" would be better.

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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