Dovecot, pigeonhole and hardlinks
Hi list, many moons ago I asked about preserving hardlink between identical messages when pigeonhole (for sieve filtering) was used.
The reply was that, while hardlink worked well for non-filtered messages, using pigeonhole broke the hardlink (ie: some message-specific data was appended to the actual mail file). Here you can find the original thread: https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2015-November/102579.html
I would ask the same things today: is dovecot+pigeonhole capable of storing the same incoming message, sent to multiple rcpt or to a group/alias expanding in multiple recipients, as a single hardlink?
Note: I know about SIS, but it has some important drawback and I would avoid using it.
Thanks.
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On 19/12/19 11:08, Gionatan Danti wrote:
Hi list, many moons ago I asked about preserving hardlink between identical messages when pigeonhole (for sieve filtering) was used.
The reply was that, while hardlink worked well for non-filtered messages, using pigeonhole broke the hardlink (ie: some message-specific data was appended to the actual mail file). Here you can find the original thread: https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2015-November/102579.html
I would ask the same things today: is dovecot+pigeonhole capable of storing the same incoming message, sent to multiple rcpt or to a group/alias expanding in multiple recipients, as a single hardlink?
Note: I know about SIS, but it has some important drawback and I would avoid using it.
Thanks.
Hi all, any thoughts on the matter? Thanks.
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Il 23-12-2019 12:04 Gionatan Danti ha scritto:
On 19/12/19 11:08, Gionatan Danti wrote:
Hi list, many moons ago I asked about preserving hardlink between identical messages when pigeonhole (for sieve filtering) was used.
The reply was that, while hardlink worked well for non-filtered messages, using pigeonhole broke the hardlink (ie: some message-specific data was appended to the actual mail file). Here you can find the original thread: https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2015-November/102579.html
I would ask the same things today: is dovecot+pigeonhole capable of storing the same incoming message, sent to multiple rcpt or to a group/alias expanding in multiple recipients, as a single hardlink?
Note: I know about SIS, but it has some important drawback and I would avoid using it.
Thanks.
Hi all, any thoughts on the matter? Thanks.
Sorry for the bump, anyone with some suggestions? Thanks.
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Op 2-1-2020 om 17:43 schreef Gionatan Danti:
Il 23-12-2019 12:04 Gionatan Danti ha scritto:
On 19/12/19 11:08, Gionatan Danti wrote:
Hi list, many moons ago I asked about preserving hardlink between identical messages when pigeonhole (for sieve filtering) was used.
The reply was that, while hardlink worked well for non-filtered messages, using pigeonhole broke the hardlink (ie: some message-specific data was appended to the actual mail file). Here you can find the original thread: https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2015-November/102579.html
I would ask the same things today: is dovecot+pigeonhole capable of storing the same incoming message, sent to multiple rcpt or to a group/alias expanding in multiple recipients, as a single hardlink?
Note: I know about SIS, but it has some important drawback and I would avoid using it.
Thanks.
Hi all, any thoughts on the matter? Thanks.
Sorry for the bump, anyone with some suggestions?
I think this used to work in the past. Still need to look at this one.
Regards,
Stephan.
Il 03-01-2020 13:11 Stephan Bosch ha scritto:
I think this used to work in the past. Still need to look at this one.
Regards,
Stephan.
Hi Stephan, thank for your reply.
What surprises me is that hard-linking identical messages saves so much space, yet nobody seems to asking/using such feature. So, either a) few cares about saving space or b) few are using the pigeonhole plugin. And both a) and b) seems unlikely...
Thanks.
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