How to change Mozilla to save your Sent messages to a folder on the Mail Server.

Mozilla's default setting for saving messages that you've sent is to save them to a folder in your Local Folders called "Sent". Some people prefer to change this setting so Mozilla saves all of your Sent mail messages to the server - this makes all of your mail messages acccessible from any computer, no matter where the messages were sent from.

To change this setting in Mozilla, from the email client:

1) choose Edit, then Mail and Newgroup account settings.

2) On the left side, under your email server profile, choose "Copies and Folders".

3) On the right side, in the top portion of the window, where it says "When sending messages, automatically:", the box next to "Place a copy in:" is normally checked by default. Next to "Sent" Folder on:, pull down the box and choose the mail server that you want to save your messages to.



You can also choose a folder name other than "Sent". To do this, you'll need to create the folder on the server first, then go back to this page and choose "Other" under "Place a copy in", then select the folder that you created.

Note that this setting is only valid for this mail server profile. If you have multiple servers defined, you may want to change this setting for each profile.

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