Questions about hardlinks, alternate storage and compression]
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Wed Jun 8 00:13:28 UTC 2016
It's a rather difficult change and also pretty low priority right now. I'd be happy to explain the details to whoever wants to develop this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was still unimplemented a few years from now.
> On 07 Jun 2016, at 15:59, Gionatan Danti <g.danti at assyoma.it> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
> any news regarding hardlinks + sieve/pigeonhole setup?
>
> Hardlinking seems a very important feature to me, and I would really like to get it working.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On 30/11/2015 14:23, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On 30 Nov 2015, at 10:21, Gionatan Danti <g.danti at assyoma.it> wrote:
>>>
>>> So, let me do a straigth question: is someone using dovecot/LMTP with hardlinking? To me, this seems a _very_ important feature, and I wonder if I am doing something wrong or if the feature (hardlink+sieve) simply does not exists.
>>
>> Hardlink+Sieve has never worked. The fix is a bit complicated. Here's my TODO entry about it:
>>
>> - remove mail_deliver_session after all, do all the stuff transparently
>> by hooking into mailbox_copy().
>> - use this hook also to do the mail deduplication: 1) sort all destination
>> users, 2) create mail_user only once for each user, 3) remember in
>> src_mail the previously copied mail, 4) use that for mailbox_copy()ing
>> to following recipients
>> - make sure this removes duplicate dbox mails when sieve saves mail to
>> multiple mailboxes
>>
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