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Preesi

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Jul 31, 2005, 12:51:43 PM7/31/05
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Can I stop sent newsgroup messages from being saved in the sent folder?
Im tired of going thru them and weeding out the news and deleting.

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Terra Prime

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Jul 31, 2005, 1:27:10 PM7/31/05
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Preesi wrote:
> Can I stop sent newsgroup messages from being saved in the sent
> folder? Im tired of going thru them and weeding out the news and
> deleting.

In OE, go to Tools, Options, Send tab, uncheck "Save copy of sent messages
to the sent items folder"


Preesi

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Jul 31, 2005, 1:31:50 PM7/31/05
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That will also stop outgoing mail from being saved!
I want to save sent mail, just not sent newsgroup posts

Mike Easter

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Jul 31, 2005, 1:36:00 PM7/31/05
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But, you Terra might not be entirely happy with that result. OE save
sent is 'all or none' - it doesn't just 'unsave' news, it also unsaves
mail.

I would think you might want to handle it differently. That you would
leave save sent functional and find a different efficient strategy for
'unsaving' or deleting some, but not all, of the saved items -- and/or
organizing the saved into folders.

Delete some, organize the rest into other folders, so that the saved
folder doesn't get too large or it can corrupt.

You can massively delete by organizing according to To which will
organize the news messages into groups for deletion or by Account which
will organize all of the news messages separate from the mail messages
because they originated from a different account, news vs mail.

You could also make message rules to perform the function massively for
you.


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Mike Easter

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Jul 31, 2005, 1:38:20 PM7/31/05
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oops. Wrong 'mention'.

Mike Easter wrote:
> Terra Prime wrote:
>> Preesi wrote:
>>> Can I stop sent

>> In OE, go to Tools, Options, Send tab, uncheck "Save copy of sent


>> messages to the sent items folder"
>
> But, you Terra might not be entirely happy with that result.

I meant you Preesi might not want to do it that way.


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Toolman Tim

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Jul 31, 2005, 1:41:44 PM7/31/05
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"Preesi" <pre...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Terra Prime wrote:
>> Preesi wrote:
>>> Can I stop sent newsgroup messages from being saved in the sent
>>> folder? Im tired of going thru them and weeding out the news and
>>> deleting.
>>
>> In OE, go to Tools, Options, Send tab, uncheck "Save copy of sent
>> messages to the sent items folder"
>
> That will also stop outgoing mail from being saved!
> I want to save sent mail, just not sent newsgroup posts
>
Get a different newsreader. Or set up a new identity for newsgroup use. Then
switch identies when you are going to email.

Preesi

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Jul 31, 2005, 1:47:49 PM7/31/05
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Why should I go thru the hassle?

Old Gringo

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Jul 31, 2005, 1:54:00 PM7/31/05
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Looks like you stumbled upon a real looser. :)

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Mike Easter

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Jul 31, 2005, 1:57:53 PM7/31/05
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Preesi wrote:
> I want to save sent mail, just not sent newsgroup posts

Leave your save sent operational. Put an account column in your Sent
folder -- View/ Columns - check Account

Periodically go to the Sent, click on the account column to separate all
of your news sent from all of your mail sent, shift-click to select all
of the news sent and massively delete.


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Toolman Tim

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Jul 31, 2005, 2:02:51 PM7/31/05
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"Preesi" <pre...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Toolman Tim wrote:
>> "Preesi" <pre...@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:YsWdnTVd6qN...@comcast.com...
>>> Terra Prime wrote:
>>>> Preesi wrote:
>>>>> Can I stop sent newsgroup messages from being saved in the sent
>>>>> folder? Im tired of going thru them and weeding out the news and
>>>>> deleting.
>>>>
>>>> In OE, go to Tools, Options, Send tab, uncheck "Save copy of sent
>>>> messages to the sent items folder"
>>>
>>> That will also stop outgoing mail from being saved!
>>> I want to save sent mail, just not sent newsgroup posts
>>>
>> Get a different newsreader. Or set up a new identity for newsgroup
>> use. Then switch identies when you are going to email.
>
> Why should I go thru the hassle?
>
For the same reason I politely remove all that crap you call a sig: because
OE doesn't *do* things the way you or I want it to.

Mike Easter

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Jul 31, 2005, 2:12:48 PM7/31/05
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Toolman Tim wrote:

> For the same reason I politely remove all that crap you call a sig:
> because OE doesn't *do* things the way you or I want it to.

OE-QF will trim those sigs for you, whether they are the old bad OE sigs
or the new compliant OE sigs. [Hmm. I'm not sure about the old bad
ones, but his is new enough.]

http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ OE-QuoteFix
The sender's signature can be stripped on reply

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samuel

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Jul 31, 2005, 2:13:41 PM7/31/05
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"Preesi" <pre...@comcast.net> wrote in
news:4KydnSL8Gb8...@comcast.com:

> Toolman Tim wrote:
>> "Preesi" <pre...@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:YsWdnTVd6qN...@comcast.com...
>>> Terra Prime wrote:
>>>> Preesi wrote:
>>>>> Can I stop sent newsgroup messages from being saved in the
>>>>> sent folder? Im tired of going thru them and weeding out
>>>>> the news and deleting.
>>>>
>>>> In OE, go to Tools, Options, Send tab, uncheck "Save copy
>>>> of sent messages to the sent items folder"
>>>
>>> That will also stop outgoing mail from being saved!
>>> I want to save sent mail, just not sent newsgroup posts
>>>
>> Get a different newsreader. Or set up a new identity for
>> newsgroup use. Then switch identies when you are going to
>> email.
>
> Why should I go thru the hassle?

why get anything that works better ? not a hassle in long run

http://www.newsreaders.com/win/clients.html

Toolman Tim

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Jul 31, 2005, 2:32:24 PM7/31/05
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"Mike Easter" <Mi...@ster.invalid> wrote in message
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I used it previously, but had problems with some of the other 'features'.
It's been so long, I don't remember what it was anymore. I may try it again
soon - I'm changing laptops - but it's not worth setting up anything new on
this old junker.

Preesi

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Jul 31, 2005, 2:44:56 PM7/31/05
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Look, I have Thunderbird, but If I leave it open it NEVER checks for new
mail!
I have to keep clicking "GET NEW MAIL".
Plus I hate configuring things for spam.
I have a spam blocker for OE.

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B0B

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Jul 31, 2005, 4:39:22 PM7/31/05
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"Evan Platt" <ev...@theobvious.espphotography.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:44:56 -0400, "Preesi" <pre...@comcast.net>
> wrote:

>>Can I stop sent newsgroup messages from being saved in the sent folder?
Im tired of going thru them and weeding out the news and deleting.
>

> Don't post with your real e-mail address.

Testing Evan's theory... even though I have "Save copy" checked, this should
not save since my address is not correct.


B0B

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Jul 31, 2005, 4:58:50 PM7/31/05
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"B0B" <N0B...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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And the answer is ... it still saves in the sent folder for the default
email account. Of course Evan was also pointing out that posting with your
real e-mail address is sure to draw spam.


Gordon

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Jul 31, 2005, 4:59:48 PM7/31/05
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Why should your email address have any bearing whatsoever on whether your
email client saves a copy of sent messages?

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Mike Easter

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Jul 31, 2005, 7:26:01 PM7/31/05
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B0B wrote:
> "Evan Platt"

>> Don't post with your real e-mail address.
>
> Testing Evan's theory... even though I have "Save copy" checked, this
> should not save since my address is not correct.

I'm sure that Evan didn't mean any such thing. The advice about your
eml addy was 'generic' and had nothing to do with a solution to the
initial question.

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Mike Easter

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Jul 31, 2005, 7:51:19 PM7/31/05
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Toolman Tim wrote:

> I used it previously, but had problems with some of the other
> 'features'. It's been so long, I don't remember what it was anymore.
> I may try it again soon - I'm changing laptops - but it's not worth
> setting up anything new on this old junker.

IMO it has a memory leak or a buffer overrun problem -- but I don't know
how to properly diagnose it -- but I do know how to manage it.

It certainly has a lot of features I find necessary to help OE behave
itself -- I can't stand shortlines created by an editor's mismanagement
of EOL wraps and linelength 'growth'.

I think maybe the newest editor for OE has improved its bad behavior
which is/was the chief purpose of OE-QF, but I can't use that upgrade
patch because I'm not XP, so I can't check it out.

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Toolman Tim

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Jul 31, 2005, 7:59:08 PM7/31/05
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"Mike Easter" <Mi...@ster.invalid> wrote in message
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Maybe, but they didn't fix the sig problems (either sending OR replying),
top posting, etc. I'm used to it, so it doesn't matter too much.

Mike Easter

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Jul 31, 2005, 8:17:20 PM7/31/05
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Toolman Tim wrote:
> Maybe, but they didn't fix the sig problems (either sending OR
> replying), top posting, etc. I'm used to it, so it doesn't matter too
> much.

Your version's sig is compliant, dash dash space. OE never has trimmed
the sig.

I don't think OE 'causes' top posting - but it is 'geared' for TOFU
corporate email text over fullquote under -- and when an OE user has an
automatic sig enabled, then they are 'pushed into' top posting by the
cursor being at the top, followed by the sig, followed by everything
else. Those are the same people who never leave the default
configurations.

If that same OE user would disable the automatic sig, the business of
the cursor being at the top is appropriate IMO, because that's where the
trimming should begin. When they get everything trimmed and
contextually responded to, they can add a sig. 'Manually' click adding
the sig has a certain advantage, because one can choose from a bank of
sigs instead of having it automated.

With OEQF that whole business is taken care of - one can use the autosig
customized for which account is being used, as intended, and one can
have the cursor start at the top, which I do, [or even the bottom if
desired], and the 'relationship' between where the cursor is and where
the sig is are appropriate for trimmed contextualizing.

A great many of the things wrong with OE's behavior that offends others
have been managed by OEQF and/or the most recent improvements in OE.

The problem of the inherent insecurity of the relationship between OE
and IE and the OS itself is another matter altogether. I, of course,
believe that a well informed user can 'handle' OE and IE and MS OS/s
sufficiently securely. My friends don't seem to be able to, but I can.

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Toolman Tim

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Jul 31, 2005, 8:45:40 PM7/31/05
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"Mike Easter" <Mi...@ster.invalid> wrote in message
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> Toolman Tim wrote:
>> Maybe, but they didn't fix the sig problems (either sending OR
>> replying), top posting, etc. I'm used to it, so it doesn't matter too
>> much.
>
> Your version's sig is compliant, dash dash space. OE never has trimmed
> the sig.

Exactly. But it puts the sig at the top of a reply. That isn't exactly where
it belongs <g>

> I don't think OE 'causes' top posting - but it is 'geared' for TOFU
> corporate email text over fullquote under -- and when an OE user has an
> automatic sig enabled, then they are 'pushed into' top posting by the
> cursor being at the top, followed by the sig, followed by everything
> else. Those are the same people who never leave the default
> configurations.
>
> If that same OE user would disable the automatic sig, the business of
> the cursor being at the top is appropriate IMO, because that's where the
> trimming should begin. When they get everything trimmed and
> contextually responded to, they can add a sig. 'Manually' click adding
> the sig has a certain advantage, because one can choose from a bank of
> sigs instead of having it automated.
>
> With OEQF that whole business is taken care of - one can use the autosig
> customized for which account is being used, as intended, and one can
> have the cursor start at the top, which I do, [or even the bottom if
> desired], and the 'relationship' between where the cursor is and where
> the sig is are appropriate for trimmed contextualizing.
>
> A great many of the things wrong with OE's behavior that offends others
> have been managed by OEQF and/or the most recent improvements in OE.
>
> The problem of the inherent insecurity of the relationship between OE
> and IE and the OS itself is another matter altogether. I, of course,
> believe that a well informed user can 'handle' OE and IE and MS OS/s
> sufficiently securely. My friends don't seem to be able to, but I can.
>

And I must agree there too. For example, while I spend hours fixing
computers for coworkers and friends that are innundated with crapware, I
never have that problem on my own system.

Preesi

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Jul 31, 2005, 9:38:12 PM7/31/05
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Evan Platt wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:44:56 -0400, "Preesi" <pre...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Look, I have Thunderbird, but If I leave it open it NEVER checks for
>> new mail!
>> I have to keep clicking "GET NEW MAIL".
>
> Did you turn on the setting "Check for new mail every <x> minutes?

Yes it didnt work

WormWood

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Aug 1, 2005, 4:15:22 AM8/1/05
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"Preesi" <pre...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Evan Platt wrote:
>> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:44:56 -0400, "Preesi" <pre...@comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Look, I have Thunderbird, but If I leave it open it NEVER checks for
>>> new mail!
>>> I have to keep clicking "GET NEW MAIL".
>>
>> Did you turn on the setting "Check for new mail every <x> minutes?
>
> Yes it didnt work
>
It won't work unless you make Thunderbird the default mail client.
Could you trim that sig? Four lines are considered max for usenet
etiquette.

trout

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Aug 1, 2005, 6:29:22 AM8/1/05
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Preesi wrote:

> Can I stop sent newsgroup messages from being saved in the sent
> folder? Im tired of going thru them and weeding out the news and
> deleting.

No. Best you can do (like all OE folders) is hide them, using a
"View" setting. You'll still have to clean it out now and then, but
it'll be easier to find your sent email messages. Alternatively, you
could hide your email messages, to highlight and delete your newsgroup
posts at one go.
--
If that's the sort of thing you want to bother with.


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