[Dovecot] LMTP revisited

[Les Mikesell]

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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  Les Mikesell
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