# Hotmail Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 9, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-question/330271 "2005-11-09T20:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-question/330271/1 "2005-11-09T20:36:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-question/330271/2 "2005-11-09T20:55:35Z")
If there were, I’d have implemented it myself long ago. > **[How Do You Move Outlook.Com Email Into Folders?](https://www.lifewire.com/move-or-create-future-rule-hotmail-1174253)** > > Learn how to make folders and move your Hotmail emails in Outlook.com. Stay organized by sorting your email. > [@](#): > > To save a copy of a sent message in Hotmail: > > ``` > * Make sure the checkbox next to Copy Message to Sent Folder is selected when you compose a message. > > ``` > > Unfortunately, this setting is not saved by Hotmail, so you have to select the checkbox every time you send a message and want it saved to the Sent Messages folder. ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-question/330271/3 "2005-11-09T20:58:12Z")
Also note that stuff in the sent folder is deleted after 30 days. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-question/330271/4 "2005-11-09T23:07:47Z")
If there were, I’d have “magna” in front of “cum laude” on my diploma. (Long, boring story) ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-question/330271/5 "2005-11-09T23:40:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-question/330271/6 "2005-11-10T02:01:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-question/330271/7 "2005-11-10T02:38:52Z")
::hijack for my own Hotmail comment/question:: Why does Hotmail only support the Rich text function if I’m using IE, and not any other browser? Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-question/330271/8 "2005-11-10T02:56:05Z")
> [@mr bus guy](#): > > Why does Hotmail only support the Rich text function if I’m using IE, and not any other browser? I don’t know, but Yahoo Mail – even the paid version – is the same way. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-question/330271/9 "2005-11-10T03:10:57Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > I don’t know, but Yahoo Mail – even the paid version – is the same way. ☹ Noticed that too. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-question/330271/10 "2005-11-10T03:12:34Z")
There’s some tools for IE (on Windows only) called [MSHTML](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/browser/editing/mshtmleditor.asp) and that’s what makes those swell buttons (and makes them work) in the Rich Text Editor. ---
**Author:** ![Dolukhanova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@Dolukhanova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dolukhanova)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-question/330271/11 "2005-11-10T14:06:44Z")
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.