[Dovecot] dedup in dovecot?

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

Hi all

Deduplicating data is not really a new thing, but quite efficient in  
mail systems where an email with an nMB attachment may be sent to  
multiple recipients. This might call for deduplicating data. Is there  
a way to do this, or is it far off? If I understand the system  
correctly, usually an MTA is calling dovecot on every single message,  
meaning the message itself won't necessarily be a duplicate in terms  
of headers (BCCs and so on). Would it be possible to dedup the content  
in terms of using separate files for the header and content and then  
deduping this with hard or symbolic links?

Sorry if this is an old question, but I couldn't find anything about it.

roy
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