Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!abrodnik
From: abrodnik@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Andrej Brodnik (Andy))
Subject: Re: Two question on Elm
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.032602.26418@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1991Feb11.021555.10503@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <3445@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 03:26:02 GMT
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Let me first thank to everybody who tried to help me. The final result of this
help is not what I really wanted. Let me first refresh your memory about my
problems. The bigger one was with the aliases and my "friend" having such a
strange username. Many people proposed a solution using filters. It came up,
that I learned to use them (this was really good), but still not get what I
wanted. There were at least two problems.

The first one was, since I want to read first all my mail and then put it in
proper folders. Ok, this can be solved by putting in folders and in my
mail-box at the same time using filters. But this is still not ok, since some
mail I definetly would not like to save in folders.

The second problem using this approach is the outgoing mail, which can be
saved only (automatically) in folder of the recepients username. This is
unsolvable (virtually) with a usage of filters.

Therefore some people proposed another solution. It was not Elm kind, but Unix
kind (If I say so). They proposed to create a hardlink from file "friend" to
the real one. This is feasible if my friend would be the only alias I am
using, but as it is not -- this is not completly usable solution.

So to conclude, thanx again to everybody who answered and especially to Syd.
He agreed that the only "real" solution would be to name folders according to
aliases. But as he pointed out already in one of postings this doesn't seem to
be implemented soon because of lot of problems. Therefore I'd suggest that all
together would try to (as he suggested already to me) to define the algorithm
to compute an alias from the address.

Regards to everybody

Andrej

PS: I tried to think about that problem, but finally I realized, that I do not
even completly understand the mail's header. Can somebody explain me all that
lines, please?