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From: jpederse@encad.Wichita.NCR.COM (John.Pedersen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: A basic Wish List
Message-ID: <1042@encad.Wichita.NCR.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 90 03:09:17 GMT
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ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn) writes:

>The version in use is 2.2 PL16.

>2)  The user should be able to configure personal preferences as to how elm
>    should dispose of messages when you quit, so that, for example you don't
>    have to go through the delete/save/leave-alone dialogue for each
>    category.  

I found the personal preference section to have plenty of choice, have
you edited your .elmrc file correctly?

>    I don't see any need for elm to ask you what you want to do with
>    messages you haven't touched - it should leave them alone in the
>    mailbox.

Personally, I'm glad it doesn't. I like having my received, read but not
acted upon messages waiting for me in received. Since I have a system
that continiously watches my mail directory and signals me (across a
network on another system) when mail arrives in my directory, I don't
want anything that I've already seen sitting in there.

>3)  "<" for "sent", and ">" for "received", are non intuitive. 

It is if you think of > meaning incoming and < meaning outgoing. I think
it was an excellent choice.

>6)  Mail header generation and editing during mailing and replying.

>    There is no doubt in my mind that the best way to handle this is as in
>    Rnmail, where the headers are treated as part of the message and you can
>    freely edit them.

And I really appreciate it like it is as I can use system id's as
addresses and it pulls the full name out of /etc/passwd and does all
sorts of little things that would be impossible if the headers were
directly editable in the header. I would think there would be a lot more
mis-addressed mail if my users tried to use vi or gnu to get the syntax
of the RFC compliant headers correct.

Like you said, it's all a matter of personal preference. Personally, I
like it.

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