Max said: >It's just a practical matter. I can have as many as 30+ drafts that >occupies space in top of the Out Tray. If I then want to check some >recently sent message, I have to scroll down. This doesn't make sense to >my way of thinking -- if I need to check a mail I sent 10 seconds ago, I >expect to find it on top of the Out Try, not way down...
Ah! I can see that, yes. My solution to saving sent messages was to create a new folder called "Sent Messages." Then in Preferences, General, I configured PowerMail to save sent messages in this folder. I added some minor tweaking of this: some sent messages have their own outgoing filters that save the sent message to the same folder that incoming messages get saved to. I reserve this for important correspondence where I want the incoming and outgoing messages in the same folder. I've also added a minor other twist that fits my needs nicely. There are some outgoing messages that are just too trivial for me to even safe at all (like messages with friends, where the entire message may be nothing more than "Yes"). Since these outgoing messages are typically (for me) responses, I've created an Applescript that adds "[T]" to the end of a message's existing subject line. I then did two things: (1) Created a QuicKey shortcut that (a) runs this script, and (b) types Command-R, so that I get a reply with the modified subject line. I then type my message and send it. [If you don't have QuicKeys, the very nice utility called Butler can also run scripts, and you can assign shortcuts to them, and Butler is very reasonably priced] (2) I created an outgoing filter that looks for "[T]" at the end of the subject line. It moves those messages directly to the trash. -- Sherman
