[Dovecot] LMTP revisited

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 21:26 -0400, Glenn Leavell wrote:
> 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.

This doesn't require LMTP. It could be implemented just as well with the
current Dovecot LDA.

The one thing that disturbs me with this kind of hardlinking is that
then there are no Delivered-To headers (and others?) which are normally
added to mails.

I'm not planning to implement LMTP server anytime soon, but single
instance storage is planned for dbox format. Maildir-hardlinking in LDA
could probably implemented while doing it.

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