Hi Gottfried!
The outgoing mail _is_ in the MUA, but it may not be visible by default.
In the *Groups* buffer, just "join" the archive folder for outgoing
messages by hitting 'j' followed by the name of the folder, e.g.,
"nnml+archive:mail.2025-02" (TAB completion works). It will then appear
as a mail folder and you can select it just as any normal mail folder
and peruse it to your heart's content. 🙂 New messages that you send
will appear there automagically.
The slight drawback is that you have join a new folder every month, but
that becomes a habit, at which point I also have the habit of
"Unjoining" ('u') the outgoing file which is a year old, so I keep the
outgoing folders for the past 12 months "visible". Unjoining doesn't
delete the contents, it just drops the folder from being visible in the
*Groups* buffer. You can re-join it again with 'j' at any later point in
time.
Best regards,
/Liman
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gottfr...@posteo.de 2025-02-25 14:42 [+0000]:
> Hi Adam,
> thanks very much.
> I am used to find my sent messages in the MUAs itself.
> I was looking for this folder of sent emails in gnus,
> but there it doesn´t appear.
> So I checked my directory.
> My sent messages appear in my home directory/Mail/archive/sent
> which is still strange for me.
> I am not used to that.
> 2.
> So what are you going to do if,
> in using gnus you want to check quickly your sent message?
> In Thunderbird I have an other folder and can see immediately my sent
> emails.
> 3.
>> I have configured mine to store news and mail in separate groups, once
>>> per year, using nnml:
> Does that mean after one year it separates your sent messages?
> What happens than in the year?
> Do I have to look for a sent message in the folder, where news and
> emails are stored together?
> Kind Regards
> Gottfried
> Am 25.02.25 um 14:57 schrieb Adam Sjøgren:
>> gfp writes:
>>
>>> I read the manual, but I didn´t find something
>>> how can I save a copy of my message.
>>> I would like a copy of messages I send.
>> By default Gnus saves a copy of outgoing messages in
>> nnfolder:sent-YYY-MM.
>> You can configure gnus-message-archive-method to do something else.
>> I have configured mine to store news and mail in separate groups,
>> once
>> per year, using nnml:
>> (setq gnus-message-archive-method '(nnml "archive"
>> (nnml-directory "~/Mail/archive")
>> (nnml-active-file "~/Mail/archive/active")
>> (nnml-get-new-mail nil)
>> (gnus-search-engine gnus-search-notmuch)
>> (nnml-inhibit-expiry t)))
>> (setq gnus-message-archive-group
>> '((if (message-news-p)
>> (concat "news-" (format-time-string "%Y"))
>> (concat "mail-" (format-time-string "%Y")))))
>> The documentation is under "5.5 Archived Messages":
>> https://gnus.org/manual/gnus_75.html#Archived-Messages
>> Best regards,
>> Adam
