Dovecot and hard links?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 17 Aug 2019, at 1.57, @lbutlr via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
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> On 16 Aug 19, at 07:33 , @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
>> I was looking at a mail folder and I noted that a file in the inbox had a total of 11 hard links to it:
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> Ack. I checked the junk folder and there are 379 files in there with 379 links!
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> Since they were all in jink I just deleted them all, but that cannot possibly be desired behavior.
> 
> What do I check here?

Hard links are created when a mail is copied with the IMAP COPY command. So Dovecot just does what the client asks it to do. Maybe you have some misbehaving IMAP client?