Questions about hardlinks, alternate storage and compression

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Tue Jul 14 10:26:21 UTC 2015


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On Tue, 14 Jul 2015, Gionatan Danti wrote:
> On 14/07/15 08:17, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>
> Mmm... I'm using LMTP, but I can't find the "Delivered-To" header.
> Below you can see an example of successfully hard-linked email [1]

You asked about "newer dovecot versions", v2.2 does so.

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Steffen Kaiser
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