[Dovecot] Mail deduplication

[Radek Novotný]

Tim,

oops, I read your message again and carefully. I see my mistake. You 
don't want delete whole duplicated messages but only their parts. So 
sorry for my reply, because It is quite out of topic.

Radek



Dne 30.4.2013 03:28, Tim Groeneveld napsal:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I am wondering about mail deduplication. I am looking into the 
> possibility
> of seperating out all of the message bodies with multiple parts inside 
> mail
> that is recived from `dovecot` and hashing them all.
> 
> The idea is that by hashing all of the parts inside the email, I will 
> be
> able to ensure that each part of the email will only be saved once.
> 
> This means that attachments & common parts of the body will only be
> saved once inside the storage.
> 
> How achievable would this be with the current state of dovecot? Would 
> it
> even be worth doing?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim