On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 15:33 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 8/12/2009, Timo Sirainen (tss@iki.fi) wrote:
Do you need per-MIME part single instance storage, or would per-email be enough? Since the per-email can already done with hard links.
The only thing I can find about this on the wiki is where it says single instance attachment storage (for dbox) is planned. Is how to accomplish single instance email storage documented anywhere? And is this reliable enough to use on a production system?
Two possible ways:
a) Just write a script to find identical mails and replace them with hard links to the same file. :)
b) Use deliver -p <file> for delivering mails. You'll probably need to write some kind of a script for delivering mails, so that when it gets called with multiple recipients it can write the mail to a temp file and call deliver -p for each recipient using the same file.
So yeah, either one are as reliable as the script :)