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>> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:26:49 -0500, prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) said:

   > Rob Walker <rob@ladle.net> wrote:
   >> I have a single mailing list which had over 16000 messages in it.

   > The actual limit is NLINK_MAX, which varies from system to system.

   >> Signaling: (file-error "Adding new name" "Too many links"
   >> "/home/rob/mail/myinternetplace/mail.lists.evals/.nnmaildir/marks/read/:"
   >> "/home/rob/mail/myinternetplace/mail.lists.evals/.nnmaildir/marks/read/1073931271_0.18828.tp600x,U=17123,FMD5=691287df477cdb411b6f056cb0287f3a")

   > I know how to fix this; hopefully I'll get to it soon.  For now,
   > you can work around it like this: $ cd
   > /home/rob/mail/myinternetplace/mail.lists.evals/.nnmaildir/marks/read
   > $ touch :-new $ mv -f :-new :

This worked.  Thank you.  Are you saying that the fix needs to be made
in the nnmaildir backend?

rob