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From: edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Save mail in folder with 'alias' name -- Potential New ELM Feature ?
Keywords: elm, alias, mail, folder
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Date: 12 Oct 89 08:00:13 GMT
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In article <627@duteca.UUCP> alex@dutirt1.tudelft.nl (Alexander Vonk) writes:

 > Just an idea:
 > I receive or send mail to my friend Matthijs a lot. His address is specified
 > as alias 'matthijs', because his mail address is 'b35@dhdurz1.bitnet' and
 > that's to much to remember for me. When I want to save this mail using
 > ELM 2.2 PL11 the default save folder pops up as '=b35', while I want to
 > save this mail in archive '=matthijs'.

 > Is it possible to specify default save folders in an aliases-like way,
 > like usage of the aliases database to come up with a more user friendly
 > name than the userid in the mail address itself?

Right, I'd like to see a feature like this as well, not only for the
reason mentioned above but also for the following scenario: if you
happen to know a few guys named "joe", messages to whichever "joe" all
end up in the same mail folder and that's pretty annoying.

Of course it's not an easy step to change this, because Elm needs to
*recognize* email addresses to find the corresponding alias name. If
the mail headers in a message from "Joe Blue" to me *always* contain
the *same* 'From:' line, it seems to be just pattern matching on the
aliases, but that's not always the case.
E.g. if "Joe Blue" is located in the domain "foo.bar.toplevel", it depends
on his mail delivery agent how it constructs the 'From:' line: if it
prepends the domain with a host name, we're in trouble because "Joe Blue"
might be sending off mail from a lot of different machine is his domain.

If we want to tackle this, I guess we should add an "also-known-as"
field to the alias file. This extra field consists of one or more
alternate email adresses.


How about the opinion of other Elm users on this suggestion ???


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