I have been using Yahoo mail for ages. Is there a way when I send an email that it will prompt me whether or not I want to save a sent copy? The only option I found is to save all the sent messages but I don't need to save every single email I send, just the important ones.

....and switching to another free email provider is not an option.

Thanks.

12/9/2009 2:58:49 PM

pretty much no. You'd have to go into your sent folder and delete if after you send it if you don't want to keep it.

12/9/2009 3:09:08 PM

Yahoo sucks!
Does gmail or other free email service have that option?

12/9/2009 3:31:40 PM

I don't know if yahoo supports the (+) messaging system, but with GMail it would be pretty easy to setup a filter.

tww@gmail.com and tww+sent@gmail.com would both go to your 'tww' GMail inbox. So you would set up a filter for all tww+sent mail to be moved to "Sent" folder.

Matches: to: (tww+sent@gmail.com)
Do this: Apply label "Sent Items"

Then anytime you wanted to save a copy you could just CC:tww+sent@gmail.com

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Is it still not an option to switch email providers if you can get POP access to your yahoo account and send/receive using that yahoo address from within GMail? Maybe Yahoo has a filtering system in place like this I'm not sure.

[Edited on December 9, 2009 at 3:41 PM. Reason : .]

12/9/2009 3:40:29 PM

Yahoo doesn't offer selective sent message saving. Since they've gone to unlimited storage their philosophy is either keep nothing or keep everything. I've starting saving all sent messages on my yahoo mail where I didn't used to do so.

12/9/2009 5:19:20 PM

I've always saved emails I sent ... goes a long way to proving to someone that you sent an email when (for some technical reason) they claim to never have gotten it.

12/9/2009 5:53:00 PM