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mh-e additions wanted: local signatures, interactive alias expansion, etc.

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From: Curtis N. Bingham
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 1994 19:53
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I am looking for a couple of mh-e enhancements:

o  Automatic signatures

   I would like to have an option whereby my signature may be either
   automatically appended or in response to a keystroke (currently,
   only the latter is provided).  This should be a toggle.

o  Public vs. Local signatures
  
   The majority of my mail is sent to local addresses (no domain
   name).  I would like a utility that would give me the option of
   using public and private (abbreviated) signatures.  This would be
   automatically chosen for me, based on the alias expansion.  If
   there is one or more external recipients, then it should use the
   public signature.  If all the recipients are local, then the
   private signature would be used.

o  Interactive alias expansion:

   I would like to have the functionality of mail-abbrev that used to
   work with mail that would parse the standard aliases and
   automatically complete any alias found, provided one was in the
   mail header.  This would need to also be added into the
   interactive, minibuffer prompt for fields such as Subject:, To:,
   CC: etc.

o  Auto-Select of folder for incoming and Fcc: +proper-outbox for
   outgoing messages

   I used RMAIL prior to mh-e, and there was a really nifty utility
   there called rmailgen that would refer to an alist containing
   regexps on the mail headers and the files that messages matching
   the regexp would be directed to.  It seems that there have been a
   couple of code snippets that have been posted recently that attempt
   to do this.  

   I would like to find a package that extends this and can apply the
   matching operations to the messages that are being composed.  For
   example, if I am refiling messages according to this regexp:

 	'("^Subject:[ \t]*.*RSI.*" . "+RSI")

   then obviously the incoming messages would be output to the folder
   +RSI.  I'd like to see the Fcc: field of outgoing messages also set
   to this value, based on the subject.


Anyone have any ideas?

Thanx,

Curtis
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Subject: mh-e additions wanted:  local signatures, interactive alias expansion, etc.
Date: 08 Oct 1994 19:53:49 GMT
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