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Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:

> Is it possible to define the crosspost-link-function to use symbolic
> links instead of hard links?  I can imagine that there could be
> trouble due to the different semantics of symbolic links.
> 
> More precisely, will the following setting lead to trouble:
> 
>   (setq nnmail-crosspost-link-function 'make-symbolic-link)

I have been using this setting and have had no problems so far.  I
find it necessary when on a distributed file system (for obvious
reasons).

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