Hello Tim and Janet >>Have a "File in after sending" popup menu in the outgoing message window >>similar to that in the incoming message window. >> >>Right now, to file his sent messages, the user has to open the Out Tray, >>scroll to the desired folder, open it to show the sub-folder (if >>necessary) and drag the Sent message into it. Then repeat this for every >>message sent. >> > >Not so. > >There are two options for automation available: > >1) Use the "General" Preferences to set a default folder for sent mail.
That's fine if you want all your sent mail lumped together in one folder. I have both incoming and outgoing mails together inside folders labeled either with the 'other person's name' or the subject. >2) Use filters to move sent mail to an appropriate folder. > > >Now it is true that one-off choices are manual but I've found that those >happen rarely, if ever. Essentially all my outgoing mail is >automatically moved to the appropriate folder and I can't recall a time >when I couldn't classify my outgoing mail with a permanent filter. > >In case anybody thinks I've got a dead simple setup, I should tell you >that I successfully use PowerMail to manage 28 folders, including 1 >subfolder plus 4 or 5 accounts each with their own set of filters. >Included in that is the administration of 2 mailing lists. > >While the above might be less than some, I would argue that it is more >than most and nicely demonstrates the power of the application. Just for fun I counted my current folders. Right now I have 85 folder, 108 sub-folders and 74 sub-sub-folders. That makes a total of 267 today. There will be more in the future and they are constantly changing. If I understood you correctly, I am not about to load up PM with 267 filters and give myself the job of keeping them all up to date. I would like PM to do the job for me in the same way it does my incoming mail. -- Frank Mitchell, Scottsdale, Arizona
