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From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm destroys links!
Message-ID: <5823@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 89 19:19:37 GMT
References: <924@pcsbst.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <924@pcsbst.UUCP> mike@cochise writes:
+Hi there,
+
+I've just noticed a very annoying thing about ELM 2.2 PL10. The
+situation is as follows:
+
+since we have local aliasas for our internal mail (handled by
+smail 2.5), mail to user xxx (from inside the Co.) is to 'x' (his
+local alias), while mail from him has his logname (xxx) in the 
+From:-line.
+
+Wanting to save both in the same folder, I link ~/Mail/xxx to
+~/Mail/x, which seems to work fine as long as I save messages
+sent to my by xxx, ie. I see them in both folders -> the link
+remains. BUT: when I send to the person (using 'M'ail), elm saves
+the message in one of the folders (namely ~/Mail/x) and destroys
+the link to the other !-(.

I'm confused. Could you tell us step by step what you do? I can't
imagine that elm unlinks a file and recreates it when merely appending
a message to an existing file (as occurs when you save a copy of
outbound mail or save an incoming message from you mailbox).
-- 
Rob Bernardo      ...![backbone]!pacbell!pbhyf!rob -or- rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM
  Product engineer, UNIX/C Reusable Code Library        Editor, "Go `C' UNIX"
  Office: (415) 823-2417                Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, California
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