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From: s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Stephen Riehm [Romulis])
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Storing received/sent mail by user name
Message-ID: <6336@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 25 Nov 90 04:26:01 GMT
References: <1837@utodaycom>
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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sean@utodaycom (Sean Fulton) writes:

>How do I teach ELM 2.3 to store received and sent mail by name of
>addressee? I edited .elm/elmrc and the best I can get is sent mail
>stored by name, but received still winds up in =received. I need them
>both.

I found the easiest way to accomplish this is to save the mail you want
saved either :-
by using filter to save them automatically for you OR
by saving the mail after you read it using the '>' command.. this
will prompt you for a folder name.. giving the users name as the default.

I personally use the second method.. I also dont let it delete messages
until I mark them for deletion.. either by typing 'd' or by saving them
('>' automatically marks the note for deletion)

I don't think ELM can do it for you automatically.

One further question tho.. is it possible to have Elm save notes in folders
in REVERSE order?? ie: most recent first?                           ^^^^^^^
This is an option available in mailx.. and I quite liked to be able to look
up the most recent stuff quickly.. This isn't a great problem.. more of
nuisance quality than anything else. (less pages backwards also thankfully)

the relevant flags in the elmrc file for saving mail in the folders etc
are...

--- elmrc options for providing automatic saving of sent mail in folders ---

#
# .elm/elmrc - options file for the ELM mail system

# where to save received messages to, default file is "=received"
receivedmail = =received
# where to save copies of outgoing mail to, default file is "=sent"
sentmail = =sent
{ note these options never actually gets used so they can be left blank}

# where to save my mail to, default directory is "Mail"
maildir = /u1/s88/s887212/mail

# should the default be to delete messages we've marked for deletion?
alwaysdelete = ON

# should the default be to store read messages to the "received" folder?
alwaysstore = OFF

# should the default be to keep unread messages in the incoming mailbox?
alwayskeep = ON

# save a copy of all outbound messages?
copy = ON

# save outbound messages by login name of sender/recipient even if the
# associated folder doesn't already exist?
forcename = ON

# should we keep folders from which all messages are deleted?
keepempty = OFF

# save messages, incoming and outbound, by login name of sender/recipient?
savename = ON

--- end of elmrc options ---

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Romulis [Stephen Riehm]	            Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
					       (124 Latrobe St., Melbourne.)
s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au					   Australia.

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