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Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org> writes:

> >>>>> "Mikael" == Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:
> 
> Mikael> More precisely, will the following setting lead to trouble:
> Mikael>   (setq nnmail-crosspost-link-function 'make-symbolic-link)
> 
> As directed in the documentation, you should use 'copy-file if you
> cannot use hardlinks (i.e. 'add-name-to-file). The reason is that if
> an article is crossposted in two mail-groups with different expiration 
> times and the one with the shortest ex. time is the one containing the 
> original, then you will end up with a symlink pointing to nowhere.

Ah.  I hadn't had a problem with symbolic links before, but now I
realize that that was because I never expire messages.

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