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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: linked mailbox files and ELM bug
Keywords: link, mailbox files
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.043325.6209@DSI.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 90 04:33:25 GMT
References: <1990Sep28.183832.12249@cbnews.att.com>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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ege@cbnews.att.com (Ernie Englehart) writes:

>Our system is running with ELM 2.2 PL14.
>I have found a bug with ELM.
>I thought it would be easy to
>create a link to the file, using the ln command, and then I could save
>the mail to either place and it would be going into the same mailbox.

>This will work until some of the mesages are deleted.  Then ELM will
>remove the old file and create a new one with the same name, which destroys
>the link.
Its not a bug, but a design item of Elm 2.2, that was changed in
Elm 2.3.  Elm 2.2 always recopied any changed folder.  Elm 2.3
does the copy back, but if the link count is > 1 it does a copy back
and not a move.  I suggest you update.

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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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