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From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm 2.2PL14: Inconsistency in recording Mail Sent
Message-ID: <6558@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 89 20:06:16 GMT
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Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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One person wrote:
+I have set my options so that a copy of outgoing mail is saved in a
+folder called "sentmail". The problem is that Elm 2.2 is not consistent.
+Sometimes it saves a copy, and sometimes it doesn't.

Another person wrote:
+I have a different problem. I don't have a handle on it yet, but
+if I try to send mail to an address that is bogus, sometimes it
+does not keep a copy in my outgoing file. This is a pain, as the
+mailer spits it back with all kinds of headers attached that I
+need to delete before remailing.

It would behoove elm users to RTMF :-) (mainly the reference guide)
about this. My memory might be faulty, but as I recall (I don't have
the most recent guide in front of me) there are three boolean options
of the elmrc that govern the saving of a copy of outbound messages.

If "copy" is off, no copy will be saved, else ...
If "savename" is off, the copy will be saved to your sentmail folder, else ...
If "forcename" is on, the copy will be saved to a folder named by the logname
	of the first recipient, else ...
If the logname-named folder already exists, it will be saved there, else to
your sentmail folder.

(Again, this is just my recollection; I may have gotten details wrong.)
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