[Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

[Charles Marcus]

On 8/12/2009, Timo Sirainen (tss at iki.fi) wrote:
> Do you need per-MIME part single instance storage, or would per-email be
> enough? Since the per-email can already done with hard links.

The only thing I can find about this on the wiki is where it says single
instance attachment storage (for dbox) is planned. Is how to accomplish
single instance email storage documented anywhere? And is this reliable
enough to use on a production system?

The reason I ask is, this would solve *one* of our problems, namely, my
having to limit attachments on our mail lists. Since these emails would
be identical, I could start allowing large attachments to them and there
would be only one actual message stored with the subsequent deliveries
being hard links?

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Best regards,

Charles