Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!pcsbst!mike
From: mike@pcsbst.UUCP (Mike Schroeder)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Help with ELM required
Message-ID: <319@pcsbst.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 88 19:12:24 GMT
Reply-To: cochise!mike@pcsbst.de.UUCP (Mike Schroeder)
Organization: PCS GmbH, Pfaelzer-Wald-Str. 36, 8000 Muenchen; West-Germany
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Hi there,

we recently installed a company-wide mailing system here based on
smail 2.5 and using the alias features of smail. Now I've run
into a (small) problem using ELM (1.7 beta) as a front end.

Here's the situation: I receive mail from someone within the
company, which I save to a file named by the senders id (neat
feature of elm, btw). Say the guy's login is 'wild', so elm stores
it in file '=/wild'. So good, so far. Now I send mail to him (not
using the 'Reply' command, just 'Mail'), using his company (smail) alias,
which in this case is 'rw'. Elm promptly saves the outbound mail
in '=/misc', since file '=/rw' does not exist.

What I'd like it to do tho is to also save this mail in '=/wild'
since this is where my traffic with him should go. I.e., I want
elm to save both incoming and outgoing mail in the same file, even
tho the receipient/sender's (machine) id may be different.

Is there a way to do this with elm, maybe using elm aliases? Or do
I *have* to do it manually, say by saving incoming mail explicitly
in '=/rw' (that does mean remembering to do more typing!-()?

Any suggestions?

Cheers
--
Mike Schroeder			(cochise!mike@pcsbst.de.UUCP)
PCS GmbH; Pfaelzer-Wald-Str. 36; D-8000 Muenchen 90; W. Germany
UUCP:  ...uunet!unido!pcsbst!cochise!mike
PS: anyone seen my disclaimer wandering around ?-)