[Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage

[Charles Marcus]

On 2011-12-07 5:25 AM, Yann Dupont <Yann.Dupont at univ-nantes.fr> wrote:
>
> Right now, we archive and then delete the mailbox directories (we don't
> use special dovecot mecanism : we migrated from another system not long
> time ago and we had special scripts for that).
>
> If we use SIS, what happen to the attachements ? The usage count will
> never go to 0, and the attachements will stay there forever.

?

Attachment count for any messages that were *only* in those deleted 
mailbox directories would go to zero after you delete them, and then the 
attachments would be deleted. Dovecot wouldn't know about any that were 
archived outside of dovecots knowledge.

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Best regards,

Charles