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From: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: ELM saves copy of sent email in wrong (?) file
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.204832.25256@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US>
Date: 16 Mar 91 20:48:32 GMT
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Organization: Mt. Diablo Software Solutions
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dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) wrote:
>I posted a question about some email of mine not getting saved in my
>"sentmail" folder.  I finally tracked down what the problem is.  It
>seems that if there is a folder in my "maildir" directory that corresponds
>to who I'm sending the mail to, it saves the copy in that folder instead
>of my "sentmail" folder.  I've got "forcename" set to "OFF" but I would
>guess that this only comes into play if the folder doesn't exist.

You want to set copy = OFF in your ~/.elm/elmrc file. Forcename only
comes into play if copy = ON and only makes a difference if the folder
doesn't already exist.
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Rob Bernardo					Mt. Diablo Software Solutions
email: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US		phone: (415) 827-4301