[Dovecot] documentation for developers
Hi there, I have two questions:
- Is there a dovecot documentation for developers (apart from the source
itself)? - In the site I am concerned with, it happens very often that one mail is
delivered to hundreds of recipients. Since almost all of the mailboxes are
situated on the same filesystem, the mail is delivered by just saving it
once and establishing hardlinks from the mail directories of all the other
recipients to this one mail.
My question now is: can dovecot's lda "deliver" be configured to deliver mail to more than one recipients and to use the hardlink method just described?
Boris
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- In the site I am concerned with, it happens very often that one mail is
delivered to hundreds of recipients. Since almost all of the mailboxes are
situated on the same filesystem, the mail is delivered by just saving it
once and establishing hardlinks from the mail directories of all the other
recipients to this one mail.
My question now is: can dovecot's lda "deliver" be configured to deliver mail to more than one recipients and to use the hardlink method just described?
Not presently, 'Single-Instance-Storage' is on the radar (I'm looking very much forward to it), but I believe not until v 2.0 or so...
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Best regards,
Charles
Boris Lorbeer wrote:
Hi there, I have two questions:
- Is there a dovecot documentation for developers (apart from the source
itself)?
I have not see any significant amount of developer documentation, but I can say from experience the source code is clear and clean, and very easy to learn. So I think a third party could make a fair go at generating documentation (and get it close to right) without Timo's help.
- In the site I am concerned with, it happens very often that one mail is
delivered to hundreds of recipients. Since almost all of the mailboxes are
situated on the same filesystem, the mail is delivered by just saving it
once and establishing hardlinks from the mail directories of all the other
recipients to this one mail.
My question now is: can dovecot's lda "deliver" be configured to deliver mail to more than one recipients and to use the hardlink method just described?
I've seen this request turn up at times. Have you checked back through the archives to see if anyone has found a "workable" solution?
My hope is to avoid this sort of thing (at least from mailing lists) with shared folders, but that's for another time...
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net
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Boris Lorbeer
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Charles Marcus
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Curtis Maloney