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From: alex@dutirt2.tudelft.nl (Alexander Vonk)
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: 26 Oct 89 17:31:52 GMT
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mike@cochise writes:

>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

Yes, I thought of that too. But it doubles the number of files in my
mail directory. And what about mail sent to groups I want to have in
one mail folder?

+++	Alexander Vonk - Technical Univ. Delft, Netherlands	+++
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