Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hp-pcd!hplsla!hpubvwa!grlab!scott From: scott@grlab.UUCP (Scott Blachowicz) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Save mail in folder with 'alias' name -- Potential New ELM Feature ? Message-ID: Date: 16 Oct 89 14:33:19 GMT References: <627@duteca.UUCP> <1686@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <6226@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> Sender: news@grlab.UUCP Organization: Graphicus, Inc., Kirkland, WA USA Lines: 37 In-reply-to: rob@PacBell.COM's message of 12 Oct 89 15:04:38 GMT The general problem... In article <627@duteca.UUCP> alex@dutirt1.tudelft.nl (Alexander Vonk) writes: > Just an idea: > ... > 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? In article <6226@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes: > ...[followup to a followup describing problems with mapping username > back through the aliases file]... > >A more complex solution would be needed to implement this enhancement. ...or a simpler solution. If most of the messages involved have the user's "FullName" somewhere in the headers (From:, Full-name:, others), couldn't that be used to generate a folder name. It achieves the desired goals of distinguishing between different people with the same username and giving a better name to usernames like "b35". I know all mail doesn't have a FullName in it, but using it if it's there might help a lot of cases out. If the Full-Name were used, then problems of users on different machines would be gone, to be replaced by problems like "is 'Joe Blow' the same person as 'Joseph X. Blow, III' or 'Josef BLOW'?". Maybe one could set up a list of regular expressions to describe the auto-save somehow and the folder to save to. The VM mailer under GnuEmacs has such a facility. Is a reasonably simple solution possible here or is it just a different set of complexities? ...food for thought. -- Scott Blachowicz E-mail: scott@grlab.UUCP USPS: Graphicus ..or.. ...!hpubvwa!grlab!scott 150 Lake Str S, #206 VoicePh: 206/828-4691 Kirkland, WA 98033 FAX: 206/828-4236