On 3/20/2009 3:24 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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I was curious where Single Instance Storage fits in on the roadmap, now that you are maybe settled in in your new digs...

What's your use case? People mailing 10 MB pdfs to everyone@company.com, or just reducing disk usage because random people receive the same attachment at different times?

Both. We get emails from vendors that contain large (sometimes 30 or 40MB) PDFs, and they send them to 5 or 50 of our employees. The employees then will email them back and forth, or send them to different people outside the company, sometimes many times.

I spent a few hours doing a random audit of someones mail store (with them sitting there with me), and found cases where the same 40MB attachment existed 20 or more times, most of them in the Sent folder, but often with copies in different client folders.

Our users are dumb...

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Is it still coming soon? Has it been pushed back by your new employers priorities?

Multi-msgs-per-file dbox is getting close to ready. Adding single instance storage to it probably wouldn't be a huge job, but I don't think it's a very high priority.

Ok, thanks for the update, even though its not what I wanted to hear...

:)