One feature of Lotus notes that I miss is that when I got ready to send a
message, I would get a prompt asking me whether I wanted to keep a copy of
the email that I was sending and if so what folder should it be filed in.
that allowed me to save space and only keep those I wanted and saved me the
trouble of refiling later. Can one do that in outlook and if so, how?

thanks

Outlook has no built-in feature to designate the save folder when you send a message, but you can add that capability with a little VBA code. The sample at http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=1173 would apply if you always want to save the item in a folder in your default store (Exchange mailbox or Personal Folders .pst file).

For VBA basics, see http://www.outlookcode.com/d/vbabasics.htm
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"David Smith" wrote in message ...
One feature of Lotus notes that I miss is that when I got ready to send a
message, I would get a prompt asking me whether I wanted to keep a copy of
the email that I was sending and if so what folder should it be filed in.
that allowed me to save space and only keep those I wanted and saved me the
trouble of refiling later. Can one do that in outlook and if so, how?

thanks

"David Smith" wrote in
:

One feature of Lotus notes that I miss is that when I got ready to
send a
message, I would get a prompt asking me whether I wanted to keep a copy
of the email that I was sending and if so what folder should it be filed
in. that allowed me to save space and only keep those I wanted and saved
me the trouble of refiling later. Can one do that in outlook and if so,
how?

This is not available in Outlook but there are workarounds to do this. Firstly you can turn on keep a copy of sent
mail. This will put a copy of all sent mail into the Sent folder. Alternatively you could turn this off and then BCC
yourself for messages you wish to keep and then create a rule to put these messages in a designated folder.