lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm        | 5 ++++-
 lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm  | 1 +
 lib/PublicInbox/LeiXSearch.pm | 9 ++++++++-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
index f6bc920d4cae9cecf849eb648683703b881eb93e..ba744ef36de5238845eb18ab6e2269e534e2060a 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
@@ -298,6 +298,9 @@ 	}
 	if (my $pgr = $self->{pgr}) {
 		push @$tcafc, @$pgr[1,2];
 	}
+	if (my $old_1 = $self->{old_1}) {
+		push @$tcafc, $old_1;
+	}
 	for my $f (qw(lxs l2m)) {
 		my $ipc = $self->{$f} or next;
 		push @$tcafc, grep { defined }
@@ -340,7 +343,7 @@ 	if (my $dedupe = delete $ret->{dedupe}) {
 		$ret->{dedupe} = $wq->deep_clone($dedupe);
 	}
 	$self->{env} = $env;
-	delete @$ret{qw(-lei_store cfg pgr lxs)}; # keep l2m
+	delete @$ret{qw(-lei_store cfg old_1 pgr lxs)}; # keep l2m
 	my @io = delete @$ret{0..2};
 	$io[3] = delete($ret->{sock}) // $io[2];
 	my $l2m = $ret->{l2m};
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm
index 438fb17582d9400467e0ffff9118e252795587c0..5f38add1179c946e4209b73527ce656da25e219c 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm
@@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ 		if (-f _ && !$lei->{opt}->{augment} and !unlink($dst)) {
 			$! == ENOENT or die "unlink($dst): $!";
 		}
 		open my $out, $mode, $dst or die "open($dst): $!";
+		$lei->{old_1} = $lei->{1};
 		$lei->{1} = $out;
 	}
 	# Perl does SEEK_END even with O_APPEND :<
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiXSearch.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiXSearch.pm
index d32fe09afa5fe51414dab17b2235ab739bbcc0ae..8d36bca96b17285830beb37cf67978e9fc36dfe4 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiXSearch.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiXSearch.pm
@@ -252,7 +252,14 @@ 		$wq->wq_wait_old;
 	}
 	$lei->{ovv}->ovv_end($lei);
 	if ($has_l2m) { # close() calls LeiToMail reap_compress
-		close(delete($lei->{1})) if $lei->{1};
+		if (my $out = delete $lei->{old_1}) {
+			if (my $mbout = $lei->{1}) {
+				close($mbout) or return $lei->fail(<<"");
+Error closing $lei->{ovv}->{dst}: $!
+
+			}
+			$lei->{1} = $out;
+		}
 		$lei->start_mua;
 	}
 	$lei->dclose;