mike@pcsbst.UUCP (Mike Schroeder) (08/05/88)
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 ?-)
taylor@hplabs.hp.com (Dave Taylor) (08/08/88)
An easy way to acccomplish what you want is to use the symbolic link capabilities of Unix. For your example, you could have a folder called "wild" and then have a symbolic link to it called "rw". This way you would indeed have the `one' folder that has the dialog of your mail to him and back ... One of the things that I had played with was having a 'user name/login to folder name' mapping scheme so I could have folders that are selected by the *name* of the person I was sending mail to (eg. C)hange Mailbox to: <Dave Taylor>) but I never got around to actually implementing it. C'est la vie. Have fun -- -- Dave Taylor ps: Eric: when is Elm 2.1 coming out?
mike@pcsbst.UUCP (Mike Schroeder) (08/18/88)
In article <368@bdt.UUCP> david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) writes: >In article <2196@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> taylor@hplabs.hp.com (Dave Taylor) writes: >>ps: Eric: when is Elm 2.1 coming out? > >Elm 2.1? I'm still waiting for Elm 2.0. I never saw the final release. >How do I get it? Has it reached any archive sites yet (especially pyramid)? > As far as I've gathered from the discussion in this group, 2.0 has not and will not be officially released. As some (different) versions of 2.0 are already around, Eric has decided to call the official release version 2.1. (makes sense if you ask me, but then who's asking ;-) The last date I heard was mid-August (hey, isn't that *now* ?-). So I second Dave's question: Eric: when is Elm 2.1 coming out ??? Cheers Mike Schroeder (cochise!mike@pcsbst.UUCP) PCS GmbH; Pfaelzer-Wald-Str. 36; D-8000 Muenchen 90; W. Germany UUCP: ...uunet!unido!pcsbst!msc PS: anyone seen my disclaimer wandering around ?-)