[Dovecot] LMTP revisited

[grant beattie]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:26:52PM -0400, Glenn Leavell wrote:

> During the early Dovecot LDA brainstorming discussions, there was some
> talk about the possibility of including an LMTP interface, and I've
> noticed that there's an "is it needed?" question about LMTP in
> Dovecot's TODO file.
> 
> I'd like to put in a vote for LMTP, and I'm wondering if anyone else has a
> need for it.  Specifically, I'd love an LMTP-enabled LDA that uses hard
> links when when delivering the same message to multiple recipients (I'm
> thinking Maildir files), as it would be a nice way to facilitate so-called
> Single Instance Storage.

hardlinks only work if the mailboxes reside on the same filesystem,
so the choice of hardlink or symlink would be useful, if this was
being implemented. on one of my systems, each user's mailbox is a
separate ZFS filesystem. :)

grant.