[Dovecot] deliver saving mails with hard linking

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Jun 2 13:51:32 EEST 2008


On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

> The SHA1 idea took me:
>
> If deliver calculates the hash for each mail, then hardlinks each  
> mail into, say, $HOME{target user}/../.inspool/{sha1_hash} (to  
> support if you have your users on different physical disks).
> If the hash already exists and the size is equal, hardlink the new  
> recpient's file to it.

I also thought about this, but is it ever useful? Isn't the Received:  
header always different for different deliveries?

BTW. This also could be done by the wrapper script if really needed.

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