I am a victim of my own inability to keep house: My Sent Items folder grows
to incomprehensible and unmanageable proportion. I am not disciplined
enought to clean it out ever X days and I can't go with opting out of having
outgoing mail stored there. I have tried the trick of remembering to CC
myself on critical outgoing mail instead of storing all of it: I forget to
do it.

What a pathetic case I am!

One solution that I envision would be a button that lives on the New Message
dialog: "Save in Sent Items". If I could rig up a way whereby one click on a
button like that would store the mail in Sent Items, otherwise not...now
that is something I could do.

Is this scriptable or add-inable? I suspect that the script wouldn't be too
difficult to write (by somebody who knows how...not me), but attaching it to
the Message dialog might be more challenging.

Perhaps this already exists...perhaps there is an option I have
overlooked...I need a lifeline so I don't drown under the weight of my Sent
Items folder!

Rick A.
Pleasanton CA

"Rick Altman" NOSPAMaltman.com> wrote in message
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Use the in-built archive function....

No, then the Archive folders grows to incomprehensible proportion and
sifting through it becomes a nightmare. I trade one beached whale for
another. I seek the ability to be able to decide, and click one button,
about saving to Sent Items an outgoing email as I am composing it.

"Gordon" gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
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In each email while you are composing you can click the Options button and
choose where to store the email. For example, the default is Sent Items but
you can choose any folder, including Deleted Items.

--
Kathleen Orland - MVP Outlook
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
http://www.howto-outlook.com/

"Rick Altman" wrote:

I can't arbitrarily have Auto Archive delete anything older than two months.
I rouinely need to refer back to email sent two, three, four, six, eight
months ago. And while tabbing up to CC and entering my email address is more
than I would have the patience for, clicking one button is not. If I could
have a single click that performs that service, I would make myself use it.
I would reform myself. I would be saved. Julie Andrews would sing, a Ken
Burns landscape would display on my monitor, and world peace might break
out.

Or something like that...

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"K. Orland" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I just found it funny that this is actually one of those rare times where,
for this particular problem, there actually is a technical solution. Not a
solution I'd want to live with, I'd hate to be asked every. single. time. if
I wanted to save the item to my sent items, but...