A colleague wants to keep a copy of SENT messages in his Hotmail account without the need to remember to keep a copy each time… is there a way to automate one’s Hotmail account to do this?
Yes, I know the answer is to use some other free mail server, but that’s what he wants.
Automatically saving one’s outgoing messages in a “sent” folder is an option that is available only to those who pay to use hotmail. Yahoo Mail will automatically save your stuff in a sent folder, and it’s free. That is among the many reasons I switched.
My reward for sticking with Hotmail for donkeys years was that when I was away in the summer they decided to increase the storage capacity from miniscule to enough-unless-someone-sends-you-another-photo-of-their-baby. (Oh! for the days of Kodak and Fuji!)
Regarding Sent messages being zapped after 30 days (I’m now conditioned to click the Save box before sending), one advantage is that it has led me to save the really important messages I send in a Word document, and thence to back them up on a CD-R. Useful for a natural non-organiser like me.
Perhaps everyone already knows this, but you can save your sent messages in hotmail indefinitely if you move them to your inbox.
Incidentally, I use hotmail because I can’t access yahoo e-mail from work – our software filter forbids it! This has always struck me as rather odd, considering some of the other things I CAN access.