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on 12 Jun 91 18:35:17 GMT,
fredb@uther.calvin.edu (Fred H. Bremmer) said:

Fred> jwl@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John N Lutz) writes:

John>Howdy,
John>	I would like to append all my outgoing reply mail to my RMAIL
John>file, in the same way that setting record in your .mailrc will append
John>your message to a specified file.  I would like it to maintain the
John>RMAIL format also.  Any suggestions? I understand that I can C-x C-s,
John>switch to rmail-mode, and somehow append that to the RMAIL file, but I
John>would like to do this on the fly, possibly tacking it on to C-c C-c in
John>mail mode.  

Fred> I recently found out how to do something like this.  I added the following
Fred> line to my .emacs file so I could store all my outgoing mail in the file
Fred> called /home/fredb/.record 

Fred> (setq mail-archive-file-name "/home/fredb/.record")

Fred> When I want to view my old letters, I just hit "i" in RMAIL mode to let me
Fred> run RMAIL on my .record file.  I hope this helps.

If you put your .record file on RMAIL's inbox list (command
set-rmail-inbox-list) your outgoing mail gets included at every rmail
invocation. You can include it by just pressing g at any time, too.
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Uwe Geuder, geuder@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de