[Dovecot] v1.1 plans

[Jacek Osiecki]

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 10:51 +0200, Jacek Osiecki wrote:

>> ago, but I don't know if there were any decisions made... Is there a plan
>> for using hard links in dovecot-LDA when the mail is going to be delivered
>> to many recepients... In fact lack of such functionality is the only thing

> It's a bit annoying to implement. I could of course always just kludge
> it in some way, but perhaps when shared mailbox support is finished this
> could be implemented more easily:

[...]
> - Write the mail to some temporary mailbox
> - Copy it to the users' mailboxes. With maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes
> this'll make them hardlinks

> The temporary mailbox is needed because otherwise it's possible that the
> message gets expunged before it's copied to all the users' mailboxes.

Good point, I did not think of that - some user's sieve script could expunge
the message... 
So - good luck with shared folders! :)

Greetz,
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