Re: [IMail Forum] Required field and archiving

[NetQuick Mail Administration]

After some thought on your idea, I seem to recall a potential Imail problem
that you may be able to turn to your advantage.  Please check the archives
(or the original poster may contact you) for a thread on Imail creating
sub-mail boxes when it receives a message with a "." in the address.  (i.e.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]).  I haven't had a need for that information and merely
read the post in passing.  If I understood it correctly this would be a way
for you to sort the projects in a catch all account such as
([EMAIL PROTECTED]).  I'm not sure whether the exiting account name
is to the left or the right of the period, you would need to check the
original post to see the correct formatting for this.

Kevin Childers

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Required field and archiving


> Ruth,
>
> There is no 'required' field of that nature in normal email. About
> the only things required for email, is To: and From: addresses. But
> you might be able to use the Subject field or put it right in the
> body (each may have dis/advantages). It could even be the email
> address (your archive, by project!). In IMail, the 'nobody' alias
> could 'catch' project numbers (or users) that do not yet have an
> address.
>
> Where is the mail going, besides the archive? (Is email really the
> solution?)  With email, you can get some of the things you want, but
> probably not all, certainly not some things you may require.
>
> A special email client, (or modification of one whose source code is
> available) could add other fields (X-Project?) to the header, which
> some other code at a mailbox, looks for and 'sorts' the mail. But
> you need a programmer for that.
>
> The Web Messaging Templates, might be modified to add a Project
> field [if this were really the BCC field, then you could have
> mailbox names = project number!](it would have to check it, then
> modify some other portion of the message, prior to sending the
> email), but somehow, I don't think that is all you would need.
>
> Daniel Donnelly
>  ___________________________________________________________
>
>
> In reply to 8 Dec message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> >Hi,
>
> > We are looking for a way to customize IMail so that whenever
> >a user sends out an email it requires them to enter in a
> >project number as one of the fields.
>
> > We are also looking to be able to archive each email into a
> >project directory somehow. The best solution would be for each
> >outgoing and incoming email to have a prompt and enable the
> >user to browse to that project's directory and save a copy of
> >the email there.
>
> > Another less desirable solution would be for copies of the
> >emails to be automatically forwarded to a secondary
> >destination where they could then be sorted by someone through
> >the project number field and placed in the proper directory.
>
> > If anyone knows of any sites, or anything that has already
> >been developed that might be solutions to these issues I would
> >appreciate the information.
>
> >Thanks!
> >Ruth
>
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