Questions about hardlinks, alternate storage and compression]

[Timo Sirainen]

It's a rather difficult change and also pretty low priority right now. I'd be happy to explain the details to whoever wants to develop this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was still unimplemented a few years from now.

> On 07 Jun 2016, at 15:59, Gionatan Danti <g.danti at assyoma.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> any news regarding hardlinks + sieve/pigeonhole setup?
> 
> Hardlinking seems a very important feature to me, and I would really like to get it working.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On 30/11/2015 14:23, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On 30 Nov 2015, at 10:21, Gionatan Danti <g.danti at assyoma.it> wrote:
>>> 
>>> So, let me do a straigth question: is someone using dovecot/LMTP with hardlinking? To me, this seems a _very_ important feature, and I wonder if I am doing something wrong or if the feature (hardlink+sieve) simply does not exists.
>> 
>> Hardlink+Sieve has never worked. The fix is a bit complicated. Here's my TODO entry about it:
>> 
>>  - remove mail_deliver_session after all, do all the stuff transparently
>>    by hooking into mailbox_copy().
>>      - use this hook also to do the mail deduplication: 1) sort all destination
>>        users, 2) create mail_user only once for each user, 3) remember in
>>        src_mail the previously copied mail, 4) use that for mailbox_copy()ing
>>        to following recipients
>>      - make sure this removes duplicate dbox mails when sieve saves mail to
>>        multiple mailboxes
>> 
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