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From: henkp@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Henk P. Penning)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Save mail in folder with 'alias' name -- Potential New Feature
Summary: trick won't always work, need something better
Keywords: elm, alias, mail, folder
Message-ID: <1744@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 27 Oct 89 11:33:57 GMT
References: <626@duteca.UUCP> <1114@pcsbst.UUCP>
Organization: Univ of Utrecht, Dept of CS
Lines: 29

In article <1114@pcsbst.UUCP>, mike@cochise writes:
> alex@dutirt1.tudelft.nl (Alexander Vonk) writes:

> ->Just an idea:
> ->Is it possible to specify default save folders in an aliases-like way,

> 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

This solution is not practical if you mail a lot with
different users who all have the same username (jan piet henk).
It would be wonderful if the alias file contained a new
aka (also known as) field per alias, containing many names and addresses
which could be used for mapping addresses or full names
found in From: lines to an alias.

Ambiguity can occur but Elm could present us with a choice
and a default as in other situations. Mail from people for whom
I have an alias and who occur in a group-alias could be saved
either in the individual mailbox or in the group mailbox.

I hope this feature makes it someday.
It is the only facility I realy miss.
-- 
Henk P. Penning, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht.
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Telephone: +31-30-534106
e-mail   : henkp@cs.ruu.nl (uucp to hp4nl!ruuinf!henkp)