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Re: [not] saving outgoing messages

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From: DWT
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 00:05
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doc@uiuc.edu (Jim Marco) wrote in <C0B07G.Mnw@news.cso.uiuc.edu>:

| Is there a way to =not= save a copy of an outgoing message?  I have my 
| elmrc configured to save a copy of all my outgoing mail in a =sent folder.
| But, there are many times I send messages I have no need to save.  I know
| I can put a [nosave] on the first line of the message and thus not save
| the body of the message, but the header is still saved and I must change to
| my =sent folder and delete the message.  I would like to have elm not save
| the message at all.  Is there some trick to this?

At the s)end f)orget h)eaders c)opy etc. prompt that you get after exiting
the editor, type c/backspace/return (without the slashes).

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