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What does the message "Writing Fcc" mean when I send mail?

Fcc stands for Folder Carbon Copy. What Pine is tell you is that it is making a copy of the mail you are sending and placing the copy in the default fcc folder. On most Unix systems this should be by default the sent-mail folder.

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