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From: leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Leila Burrell-Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Two question on Elm
Message-ID: <4478@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Feb 91 11:10:36 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.021555.10503@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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abrodnik@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Andrej Brodnik (Andy)) writes:
> o 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.

I regularly exchange mail with someone who has accounts with two
different usernames on different machines, linda on one and lindac on
the other. She may mail me from either account and I may mail her at
either. So that copies of the mail all go in the same file, I have
created a file 'linda' and another, 'lindac', which is a hard link to
it. This works very well for me. Maybe you could do something similar
and create a link 'friend' to file  'ix78yom', so that you can refer
to your friend by either name.

Leila
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