Questions about hardlinks, alternate storage and compression

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Tue Jul 14 06:17:03 UTC 2015


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On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Gionatan Danti wrote:

> On the other hand, private (per-user) sieve file works without interfering 
> with hardlinks. In a similar manner, disabling sieve also permits dovecot to 
> create multiple hardlinks for a single message.
>
> Does someone know if newer dovecot versions change anything in this regard?

LMTP adds Delivered-To header, so all delivered messages are unique and 
you cannot hardlink messages regardless of Sieve.

If Dovecot LDA adds headers, too, I do not know.

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Steffen Kaiser
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