Questions about hardlinks, alternate storage and compression]

Gionatan Danti g.danti at assyoma.it
Wed Jun 8 04:51:02 UTC 2016


OK, I see. Let me attack the problem from another side: there is any 
method to use some sort of message filtering (not necessarily Sieve) 
without destroying hardlinking capability? Or are you all running 
dovecot without hardlinking?

Thanks.

Il 08-06-2016 02:13 Timo Sirainen ha scritto:
> 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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