problem was (null)

[Roger Lindmark]

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 22:20:06 -0500 (CDT), Robb Selby wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 00:16:36 +0200, Roger Lindmark wrote:
>
>>For me it seems that all are Post-Send, as I get the filter triggered
>>after I hit F5. Pre-Send I think would be that the filter is triggered
>>when the message is on the way to the outbox. I would be very happy if
>>someone could shed light upon this matter.
>
>As far as I understand it.  Pre-Send happens when it is being moved to
>the outbox to send, because once something hits the outbox, if you have
>send immediately in your account, it is gone.  Post Send is when the copy
>of the message that just left the outbox is being moved to Sent Mail...
>but the message is already gone if you filter Post Send and will end up
>only affecting what goes into your Sent Mail folder, and NOT the actual
>mail sent.  That is my understanding of how it works and seems verified
>by what I have sent to myself.
>
>So, what happens with the filter being set to Post-Send is this.  The
>message goes to the outbox with a null subject AND gets sent, then the
>filter kicks in, puts up the message and you change the subject and turn
>off the signature, and when you send it, you actually send the message
>again, with a subject.  So the recipient gets the message twice, once
>with null subject and once with the new subject.  Big difference from
>doing it Pre-Send so that it affects the message BEFORE it gets sent from
>the outbox, because you delete the original from the outbox then, put up
>the message, and then resend it, so it only gets sent once.  However,
>because you do the delete, only the note with a subject will show up in
>your Sent Mail folder, which is misleading since you have actually sent
>it twice.

Thanks. Your explaination is right I have tested it carefully and I got
the identical result now.

Sincerely Yours

Roger


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