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From: tmoore@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM (Tom.Moore@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm destroys links!
Message-ID: <816@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 89 13:37:01 GMT
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Organization: NCR Corp. Network Application Services
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rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes:

>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).

I have had this problem too and would like to see it resolved.

To recreate it:

1.  Link an existing mail folder to a new name.
2.  Fire up elm.
3.  Change folders to one of the linked folders.
4.  Delete a message.
5.  Quit elm and answer yes to the delete messages question.
6.  Do an ls -i on the subject folders.  Surprise!

Doesn't elm have to do a delete and a selective copy back when making 
deletions to a mail folder?

Hope this helps.

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