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From: ccdn@levels.sait.edu.au (DAVID NEWALL)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm destroys links!
Message-ID: <971@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 1 Aug 89 11:21:38 GMT
References: <924@pcsbst.UUCP>
Organization: Sth Australian Inst of Technology
Lines: 29

In article <924@pcsbst.UUCP>, mike@cochise writes:
> 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 !-(.

The closest I can come to duplicating your problem is this: I create a
folder and also a second link to that folder.  I put some mail in the
folder and then change to that folder.  If I then delete a message and
change to any other folder, the link gets destroyed.  But this is what
you would expect because a folder must be completely rewritten after
deleting a message (Rewritten = create new file, copy contents to new
file, delete old file, rename new file to old file).

Could you give me "keystroke by keystroke" instructions for duplicating
your problem?


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