Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wubios!phil
From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Signature functionality change
Message-ID: <499@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 89 14:48:18 GMT
References: <204@grc.UUCP> <9388@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <281@levels.sait.edu.au> <792@cjsa.WA.COM> <707@isaak.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller)
Organization: Washington University (St. Louis)
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In article <707@isaak.UUCP> woerz@isaak.UUCP (Dieter Woerz) writes:
>In article <792@cjsa.WA.COM> jeff@cjsa.WA.COM (Jeffery Small) writes:
>>...
>>particular individual (I have suggested linking the signature file to the
>>aliases to solve this problem) and I often edit it as I compose my message.
>
>I would second this proposal. Make an extra field in the alias entry,
>which contains the name of the signature file to be used for this
>person with the option of giving no signature at all for such things
>as archive servers and things like that. Perhaps this can be a
>feature for a future release of elm.

It looks like we are continuing to suggest additions  to  the  aliases.text
file.  In addition to the folder to store incoming and/or outgoing mail, we
now have the suggestion of what signature to add.  I suggest that we  begin
to  talk about an entire database with a decent interface.  One of the very
nice things about mail on CMS was a NAMES file  which  not  only  gave  the
links  between the nickname and the electronic address, it also allowed the
specification of the  folder  (NOTEBOOK)  to  be  used  for  the  mail.  In
addition  it  had  optional  fields to list physical (snail) address, phone
numbers and tags which could be used to search  the  database.  This  meant
that  there  was  a  single  file  which  contained  all of my name/address
information - a great simplification of life over my current unix life.

Anyone have a design which could be used as the basis for such an animal?

-phil
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