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From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Svetlana A. Tkachenko" <svetlana@members.fsf.org>, ,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: viewing sent messages in rmail
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 16:01:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn55wsle.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83twkvevu5.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:09:54 +0200")

On Fri, Feb 26 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: svetlana@members.fsf.org (Svetlana A. Tkachenko)
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 23:18:08 +0000
>> 
>> Typing "i ~/SENT.MAIL RET" in Rmail works -- thank you! -- but it shows
>> up as a separate list from the incoming messages. How do I make RMAIL
>> show all e-mail (both incoming and outgoing) in the one rmail-summary
>> that it generates when it starts?
>
> You can't.  Rmail makes a separate summary for each folder.  (You
> could try redirecting FCC to your INBOX, but I don't recommend that.)
>
> If you want to see outgoing email as an incoming one, simply BCC
> yourself on each email you send, and you will receive a copy in your
> INBOX.  This works regardless of what Rmail does.

You may have solved the problem long ago, but for what's it worth I have 

(setq mail-archive-file-name (expand-file-name
"/path/to/a/directory/OUT"))

in my ~/.emacs, which FCC's all outgoing email to a file I call OUT. I've
done this for a couple of years without any problems.




      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-19 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-23  5:26 viewing sent messages in rmail Svetlana A. Tkachenko
2016-02-23 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-25 23:18   ` Svetlana A. Tkachenko
2016-02-26  8:09     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-19 15:01       ` Colin Baxter [this message]

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