[Dovecot] Deduplication active - but how good does it perform?

[Charles Marcus]

On 2012-01-06 5:54 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 6.1.2012, at 12.09, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>> I have deduplication active in my first mdbox: type mailbox, but how
>> do I find out how well the deduplication works? Is there a way of
>> finding out how much disk space I saved (if I saved some :) )?

> You could look at the files in the attachments directory, and see how
> many links they have. Each file has 2 initially. Each additional link
> has saved you<size of file>  bytes of space.

Maybe there could be a doveadm command for this? That would be really 
useful for some kind of stats applications... especially for promoting 
its use in environments where large attachments are common...

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Best regards,

Charles