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From: mike@cochise
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Save mail in folder with 'alias' name -- Potential New Feature
Keywords: elm, alias, mail, folder
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Date: 25 Oct 89 18:09:31 GMT
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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?

I had the same (a similar ;-) problem a while ago and found a
solution (thanks to some of the wizards out there!-):

set up links from (using your example) =b35 to =matthijs. BUT:
these have to be soft (i.e. symbolic) links, as ELM will destroy
ha