viewing sent messages in rmail

viewing sent messages in rmail

[Svetlana A. Tkachenko]

I put ``(setq mail-archive-file-name "~/SENT.MAIL")'' in .emacs. Rmail
saves there. But it does not show sent messages in rmail-summary, it
shows only the incoming ones. Should I write ``(setq
mail-archive-file-name "~/RMAIL")'' or would it destroy my stored mail?
How do I fix this issue, please?

-- 
Svetlana A. Tkachenko
Member of the Free Software Foundation
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Re: viewing sent messages in rmail

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: svetlana@members.fsf.org (Svetlana A. Tkachenko)
> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 05:26:23 +0000
> 
> I put ``(setq mail-archive-file-name "~/SENT.MAIL")'' in .emacs. Rmail
> saves there. But it does not show sent messages in rmail-summary, it
> shows only the incoming ones.

SENT.MAIL is a separate folder, you need to run Rmail on it as well.
You can do that by typing "i ~/SENT.MAIL RET" in Rmail.  (I think you
will have to revert it to see the additional email messages you send
thereafter; or maybe turn on auto-revert there.)

> Should I write ``(setq mail-archive-file-name "~/RMAIL")''

No, that won't do what you want.

Re: viewing sent messages in rmail

[Svetlana A. Tkachenko]

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?

-- 
Svetlana A. Tkachenko
Member of the Free Software Foundation
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org www.freenode.net

Re: viewing sent messages in rmail

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.

Re: viewing sent messages in rmail

[Colin Baxter]

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.