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From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Outgoing mail save to the wrong place
Message-ID: <4731@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 89 16:37:18 GMT
References: <6730002@eecs.nwu.edu>
Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <6730002@eecs.nwu.edu> skrenta@eecs.nwu.edu (Richard Skrenta) writes:
+I've set elm to keep a copy of all my outgoing mail in a file/folder in
+the folder directory.  If I'm in another folder in the folder directory
+and send mail, instead of putting the outgoing message in my outgoing
+mail file, it puts it in the folder that I'm in.

There are two elmrc options that govern the saving of a copy of outgoing
messages. If "copy" is ON, a copy is saved. If "savename" is ON, a copy
is saved to a file in your folder directory based on the logname of the
first recipient *if the file exists*, otherwise to the "savemail" file.
If "savename" is OFF, the copy is unconditionally saved to the "savemail"
file.

Now, you are comparing two situations, and I bet they are different
in *two* respects, not one. I'd be willing to bet that when you are in
your default mail file and send a message, there is no folder for the
recipient and it gets saved to the "savefile". But when you are in
a particular save folder, you are replying to sending a message to
the person the correspondence with whom is contained in that folder.
And so when the message is saved, the folder with the logname exists
and it is saved there and not in "savemail".

If you don't want this to happen, set "savename" OFF in your elmrc.
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