[Dovecot] On-delivery deduplication?

[Allan Cassaro]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:

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> Hi,
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> A feature of Cyrus-IMAPd I really missed after migrated to Dovecot is
> their optional "duplicate suppression", which eliminates duplicate
> message at deliver time, if their envelope sender, recipient and
> message-id matches.  For example, if one subscribes to a mailing list,
> and someone hit "Reply All" to reply to him, there will be two different
> SMTP deliveries, one from the replier's server and one from the mailing
> list.
>
> Is it possible to do the same on latest Dovecot?  (Looking at the
> documentation it seems not?)  Or is there some better ways to implement
> the same functionality?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Cheers,
> - --
> Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>    http://www.delphij.net/
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Hello Mr. Xin Li,

would you try the OpenDedup File System? (http://www.opendedup.org)
If your problem is (only) the message size, this will works like a charm to
you.

BTW, this is a great project to use with any maildir compatible server... it
reduces a LOT of disk usage space...

Best regards.


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