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From: mmuegel@camdev.comm.mot.com	 (Mike "Happy" Muegel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Two question on Elm
Message-ID: <363@camdev.comm.mot.com?>
Date: 11 Feb 91 20:53:59 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.021555.10503@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Motorola Inc., Ft. Worth, Tx
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In article <1991Feb11.021555.10503@watdragon.waterloo.edu> abrodnik@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Andrej Brodnik (Andy)) writes:
>... The other question deals with, yes, aliases. They are more or less used to
>simplify the addresses of persons whom you often send your mail. That is ok.
>But there beside them exists automatic folder system which puts your incoming
>and outgoing mail into certain folders. If your frined has an email address
>friend@hjk.kjks.kjgk this is easy. I mean it is easy to remember his real
>username. But quite often it happens that usernames are not so simple (e.g.
>ix78yom@kjhdgkh.kjfkshjk). In this case the mail is saved in folder named
>"ix78yom" and not "friend". Does there exist a possibility to do saving in
>folder "frined" in this case? If this would be true than the change of folder
>would easier as well.

This has been on my wish list also. I deal with users from so many systems who
all use different syntax for login-ids. When I make aliases for people I
always make them fit our syntax for logins (initial of first name, last name
up to 7 characters). I like to save mail this way to so I have turned off the
autosave feature.

Here are two "wants" I have been meaning to post:

   * A way to allow automatic save of read mail to a folder WITHOUT having 
     outgoing mail be saved to that same folder. E.g. I like to save all
     outgoing mail in one place but still save incomming mail by the user's
     login-id or alias. From my experience with Elm at PL11 this is not
     possible. Have it save by alias if a match can be found.

   * A way to automatically encrypt mail with the key being the user's local
     password. I think this would be just dandy to quickly encrypt mail. It
     would also be more secure since you would never have to exchange keys. Is
     this possible or does Elm use it own encryption algorithm (and not 
     crypt())? All that would be required would be some catch that says
     "use the user's password as the key."

-Mike

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