[Dovecot] Duplicate Attachments....

[Charles Marcus]

>> For example - store the attachments individually when they first come 
>> in, then every night at 3:00am, do a precise comparison on all of the 
>> attachments that came in that day and delete_duplicate->add_link on all 
>> duplicates found.

> That could be a possibility too. Although that way delivery would use
> more disk I/O than really needed for the shared attachments.

As long as it wasn't permanent, I really don't see that as an issue, but 
of course, *ideally* if it could happen at delivery time that would 
obviously be best.

But, I still really like the idea of being able to process an existing 
mailstore (since we have a huge one), rather than only processing new 
messages.

What are the chances of providing for both? Meaning, 'process on 
delivery', and/or 'delayed process' (ie nightly) / 'process existing' 
(process an existing mailstore)?

Maybe even complicate it, and provide a way of testing for how busy the 
server is, and if it is too busy when a message comes in, delay 
processing, but when it isn't very busy, process immediately?

;)

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Best regards,

Charles