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Hi, I'm using TB 2. in my mail folders i have a send folder,when i write a e-mail and won't sent it right away by default my message go in the draft folder if i want my message to go in my send folder, i go to edit menu and clic send later and my message go right in the send folder.It is possible to change in the config editor the default location(draft folder) to send folder.If yes what key in the config editor i should modify....Thanks

 

Gaston,
the Sent folder is for mail already sent, while the Drafts folder is for Unsent Mail. Ramona's site has instructions to create an Unsent Messages folder , like the old days, but it won't help you, if you want it the message to go to the Sent folder.
Sent is already sent, Drafts or Unsent is mail which is yet to be sent. It is less confusing this way.

 

Gaston

Open TB Tools>Account Settings. Highlight "Copies and Folders ". Look to the right and select "Other" under Keep message drafts in: and select whichever folder you want to keep all your drafts in.

I assume you want a folder to keep unfinished drafts in and another folder for finished emails waiting to be sent? In the case of unfinished drafts, you would have to drag them from the folder you designated in the previous step to the drafts folder until you have finished composing.

Does this help or confuse matters?

 

Bill,
you are correct. You can keep your mail anywhere you want, and I do this, to some extent, using five accounts. I don't know if this what Gaston wants.
In fact, I came back to the message, to make sure that I read it correctly.
I think I did. We will find out, sooner or later.

 

Westside,Bmoore1129,

Sorry,that's not what i want.....If i write a message but don't want sent it right away, and i close TB that popup show up:message has not been sent.Do you want to save the message in the draft folder. By default the message go in the draft folder.What i want is to have my message by default go in my Unsent folder.It is possible to have my Unsent folder in default?....Thanks

 

Hi Gaston,

If you close TB with a composition window open, the composition window remains open. The requester "popup" you're referring to appears only if you attempt to close the composition window before sending the message.

My thinking is that the rationale for saving an unsent message in the Drafts folder by default is because when a message has been completed, it's normally sent immediately. If not, the sender may want to edit or add to it, at a later time, before sending it.

The "normal" way of placing a message in the Unsent Messages folder is to click on the "File" menu and select "Send Later ", or press Ctrl + Shift + Return. As far as I can tell, there's no way to save a message in Unsent Messages by default, but there is another easy way ... in the extreme lower left corner of the TB window is an icon that looks like a lightbulb. Clicking on it puts TB in Offline mode, and the "Send" icon in the composition window changes to "Send Later ". Clicking on it will place your message in the Unsent Messages folder.

Two things to note about using Offline mode:

1) If you close TB first, and then attempt to close the composition window before clicking on the "Send Later" icon, you will still get the requester asking if you want to save the message as a draft.

2) If you close TB while in Offline mode, it will still be in Offline mode when you restart.​

 

Jim

Where is the "unsent messages folder "? Is this a folder you make yourself?

 

Hi Bill,

No, I have to think that it's created by default when TB is installed, as I've always had one. I use only a single account, but I'd think that one is created for each account, if there's more than one. See screenshot.

In the "Local" account, which I don't use (and can't get rid of), the folder is called, simply, "Unsent ".

 

That is why I had a link in my first reply. It worked in Netscape7.x, but I, never tried anywhere else. The only reason to have an Unsent folder is because a lot of people have not accepted the fact that Drafts=Unsent.
However, there is an Unsent folder in Local Folders, as Jim pointed out..

 

To the best of my knowledge that is the only way it can be done. The Unsent folder is inaccessible when Online, and using "Send Later ".

Some of the guru's over on MozillaZine may have a hack for this, in the Mozilla Thunderbird Features area, but I haven't seen it mentioned...

 

Ramona, I have no difficulty accessing either the "Unsent Messages" folder in my own account, or the "Unsent" folder in the Local account, while online.

I can send messages in those folders by accessing the "File" menu and clicking on "Send Unsent Messages ", but the only things I can do with individual messages (after having opened them) in those folders is print, reply to, forward, file, or delete them (and why would I want to reply to a message I've written but not sent? ).

As far as creating an "Unsent" folder in the default account, I've never used Jeroen Peters' hack, so far as I know, but I've always had an "Unsent Messages" folder.

 

Hi Jim

I don't have unsent mail in my 3 accounts but I do have one in my Local Folders. Never looked there as I only use the local folders for storing keeper mail.

I guess everyone has a way of doing email.

 

Same here. I have not used Local Folders since I stopped subscribing to a secure newsgroup, so I did not know, either, about the Unsent folder there.
I, rarely, have unsent mail in my Drafts folder. I has happened once or twice when I had a glitch in my smtp. It worked when I tried later, but I had to compact the Drafts folder, although the mail was gone. It makes sense, though. But the placing of incomplete messages every 5 minutes does not. And, the incomplete messages remain in the Drafts folder, after sending the completed message. I modified my time interval, just in case I don't come back for a long time. And, aren't you right about everyone having their way of dealing with mail.

 

I give up, why would you?

 

Beats me; that's just the way the program's written.