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From: jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Outgoing mail save to the wrong place
Message-ID: <396@tiamat.fsc.com>
Date: 20 Feb 89 15:43:33 GMT
References: <6730002@eecs.nwu.edu>
Organization: Filtration Sciences Corp., Chattanooga, TN
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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.
> 
> Is there a fix for this?  Do I have my elmrc wrong?

This may be related to the "savename" setting in elmrc.  If savename is turned
on, then incoming and outgoing mail will be saved in folders according to
the sender's or recipient's name, respectively.  (I have a 2.2 version, so
it this is a 2.2 only feature, please disregard.)  Thus, while in a folder,
if you mail to the person that the folder belongs to, the outgoing copy
will appear in that folder.  If there is no folder for an address already,
outgoing mail goes into your outgoing file (that's would explain why you
see two different behaviors).

Would it be possible to modify the savename parameter to be two separate
parameters?  E.g.  savenameout and savenamein?

Setting "savenameout = ON" would cause outgoing mail to be saved in folders
according to an address, setting to OFF, would cause it to all go in a
single file (which is what I, personally, prefer).

Setting "savenamein = ON" would create the default "=sender" when using the
s)ave command (which I really like, since I prefer to store incoming mail
in separate files).

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James B. O'Connor			jim@tiamat.fsc.com
Filtration Sciences Corporation		615/821-4022 x. 651

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