Thunderbird, CC header

[Fernan Aguero]

+----[ Bruce A. Mah <bmah at freebsd.org> (30.Dec.2004 14:59):
|
| Apologies if this the wrong forum.  This seems like a really simple
| question but I haven't stumbled across the magic phrase to put into
| Google that yields the answer.

mutt current_folder patch

| I'm trying out Thunderbird (installed from ports onto a 5-STABLE
| machine) as an IMAP client.  Under most circumstances, I want CCs of
| emails that I send out (both new messages and replies to other
| messages).  There doesn't appear to be a way of doing this short of
| clicking on a new recipient field in the compose message window and
| typing my email address in.  This requires both a mouse action and a
| keyboard action, which is extremely annoying to me.  I'd like it to do
| this by default, but I haven't figured out how yet.
| 
| So:
| 
| 1.  Is there an equivalent to Evolution's "Always CC: to" preferences
| setting?
| 
| 2.  Failing that, is there a way to make Thunderbird at least *preserve*
| all of the recipients in a "Reply to All" operation?
| 
| Thanks for any clue...
| 
| Bruce.
| 
| PS.  I know about the "Sent" folder.  That's not the same thing...I want
| my copies to land in my INBOX so I can group all of the messages for a
| given thread together.
| 
|
+----]

Let me see if I understand correctly:

you want to save your outgoing messages together with the
messages you receive, so they get threaded together, BUT you
think that the solution to this is to send a copy of the
message to yourself?

IMHO the solution to this is to save each outgoing message
to whatever mailbox you think it should go.

Your MUA (Mail User Agent, in your case, Thunderbird),
should let you do so. If it doesn't, bug the authors to
implement it, or do it yourself. 

I do not use Thunderbird, so I cannot fully answer your
question. But let me add one more thing: you might probably
want to not only be able to save your outgoing messages to
your INBOX instead of some other 'outbox', but perhaps to
save the message to the current mailbox (whatever that is),
so that the outgoing message gets saved together with the
message to which you're replying, no matter in which
mailbox. 

This is what I do.  But, I use mutt (mail/mutt-devel)
together with the 'current folder' patch.  It's not as
pretty as evolution or thunderbird (it's not a graphical
app, it runs on the command-line), but it has colors, and
will let you do things you would not believe are possible.

Fernan

mutt home page
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http://wiki.mutt.org/index.cgi?PatchList

PS: if you're interested in trying mutt, and need help,
contact me offlist, I can send you configuration file
examples so you can see how to set mutt in this way