[Dovecot] Getting two mails.....

[Mark Adams]

Switch to Exim4 for your MTA. It won't Append 2 files to the same  
directory if it can see they both route to you.

Mark.


On 21 Nov 2007, at 08:50, Bjørn T Johansen <btj at havleik.no> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:05:14 +0100 (CET)
> Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de> wrote:
>
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>> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
>>
>>> When I receive a mail that is addressed to my email address and  
>>> also with a cc to a mailinglist I subscribe to, I
>>> get two mails, which I guess is expected... But I have just moved  
>>> to Dovecot from Cyrus, and Cyrus seems to know
>>> that this is the same mail, so only one of those two mail is  
>>> stored on the imap srv...
>>
>> I guess you mean:
>> http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/DuplicateDeliveryExplained
>
> Yes, this is what I mean.....  :)
>
>> ?
>>
>> As far as I know there is no such thing in Dovecot's deliver.  
>> However,
>> deliver is easy to understand and probably you find someone to jump  
>> in and
>> make a patch.
>>
>> If you do not use Dovecot deliver, check your local MDA.
>
> Yes, I use Dovecot deliver....
>
>>
>> If you mean that Cyrus stores two identical mails only once  
>> physically,
>> e.g. when spooling for two users, then no, because Dovecot is not  
>> designed
>> to only support virtual users, but with real users two users cannot  
>> easily
>> share the same file.
>
> Nope, this is not what I mean....
>
>
> BTJ