On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 05:20, grant beattie wrote:
I'd like to put in a vote for LMTP, and I'm wondering if anyone else has a need for it. Specifically, I'd love an LMTP-enabled LDA that uses hard links when when delivering the same message to multiple recipients (I'm thinking Maildir files), as it would be a nice way to facilitate so-called Single Instance Storage.
hardlinks only work if the mailboxes reside on the same filesystem, so the choice of hardlink or symlink would be useful, if this was being implemented. on one of my systems, each user's mailbox is a separate ZFS filesystem. :)
Hardlinks do the right thing when the last one is deleted. With symlinks you wouldn't know when to remove the target file.
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