[Dovecot] Mail deduplication

[Angel L. Mateo]

El 07/05/13 02:19, Tim Groeneveld escribió:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 2013-04-30 8:00 PM, Tim Groeneveld <tim at timgws.com.au> wrote:
>>> After thinking about it a little bit more, I have determined
>>> that just recombining the messages to send them to the client
>>> will be too intensive, and will cause extra latencies when
>>> retrieving emails.
>>
>> Scratching my head trying to figure out what you mean here... ?
>>
>> What do you mean by 'recombining the messages'?
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> I was thinking of splitting all of the mime parts and recombining
> them later when the message was requested.
>
> All of the parts would be hashed and stored separate to the
> message. This would mean things like image signatures and the
> like would only be stored once.
>
>  From what I understand, SIS does not do this. (that being said,
> I have not looked too deeply into SIS at the moment, as I am
> currently working on the elasticsearch FTS plugin)
>
	I think that SiS DOES exactly this. All attachments are splited from 
the original message and stored in a common attachments directory. When 
the message is requested, then parts are recombined.

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Angel L. Mateo Martínez
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