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From: jeff@cjsa.WA.COM (Jeffery Small)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: New Save Feature Request
Summary: A good idea!
Message-ID: <610@cjsa.WA.COM>
Date: 12 May 89 18:38:28 GMT
References: <1144@itivax.iti.org>
Organization: C. Jeffery Small and Associates - Woodinville, WA
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In article <1144@itivax.iti.org>, scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
> 
> I'd like an elm feature that would, for some pattern I explicitly select,
> make the name of save folder be changed to something else.
> 

> I'd be interested in what other folks think of it. 
> 

This is a good idea and something I have also often wished for.  One way to
implement this might be to add another field to the alias file which would
allow the user to specify the folder name for saving incoming & outbound mail
from/to a particular user.  this would resolve the problem of storing mail
from a number of similar login IDs that you communicate with and would allow
fine-grained control allowing you to save multiple IDs to the same file.  (Some
strategy would have to be defined to resolve the folder to use when an ID
appears individually and also in one or more "groups".

This of course, would require that the alias file be processed upon startup of
ELM rather than upon the posting of the first outbound message. I have never
created an alias-table with over 25 entries so I am wondering, for those of
you who maintain extremely large alias files, does parsing the file require a
significant chunk of time and would it present an unacceptable load during
startup?  

When saving a message to a non-existing folder which is different than either
(1) the current login id or (2) the currently defined alias-table folder name,
ELM could prompt to see if you wanted to automatically add/update the
alias-table with the new information.

Comments?
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