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From: larry@focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: New Save Feature Request
Summary: Sounds like a good idea to me.
Message-ID: <441@focsys.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 13:30:23 GMT
References: <1144@itivax.iti.org>
Reply-To: larry@focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson)
Organization: Focus Automation Systems, Waterloo, Ontario.
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In article <1144@itivax.iti.org> scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
>
>Just thought of something neat I'd like elm to do. 

Steve goes on to describe a function that I do manually almost every
day. Saving mail in a folder named after the sender is not normal
for me. Almost always I like to save the article based on some other
criteria. 

>  o  Handle name conflicts so that john@kodak.com gets filed to 'john_hall'
>     while john@itivax.iti.org gets filed to 'john_sauter'.

A real problem currently. I'd love to have such conflicts resolved
automatically.

>  o  Define mailing lists so that "To: bind-request" gets saved to
>     "=mailing_list/bind" (yes, I use subdirectories within my mailbox)

Yes! So do I. This is a wonderful concept, subdirectories, eh?

I'd like to suggest another...

o  Define subject patterns so that "Subject: Re: looking at the sun"
   would be saved in "=optometry".

As Steve suggested, a major piece of software would be required to
do this. But I think that it would be a very nice feature.

-Larry
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Larry Williamson  -- Focus Systems -- Waterloo, Ontario
                  watmath!focsys!larry  (519) 746-4918