Dovecot and hard links?

[@lbutlr]

On 17 Aug 19, at 10:14 , Timo Sirainen <timo at sirainen.com> wrote:
> 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?

Maybe. Heck, I’ll grant probably, even.

But what do I do about it? How can I see when and where Dovecot is making hundreds of hard links to single messages? And when I have 379 hard links in a single folder all linking in the same Maildir folder that isn’t an IMAP COPY, can it?

👹 # find . -samefile cur/1564791714.M272226P99946.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Sbm                                                 ./cur/1564212774.M188126P73039.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564249810.M383378P61816.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564249870.M645963P63778.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564249931.M726654P10909.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564249992.M167306P22041.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564250054.M627856P36026.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564250120.M344375P57372.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564250184.M87018P78868.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564250244.M239686P97249.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564250307.M256738P32251.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564250369.M562195P60508.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564250432.M269767P89961.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564250493.M348431P23010.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564250554.M213392P36137.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564250614.M852674P98300.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564250701.M145311P56821.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564250788.M796958P24655.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564250850.M154873P76505.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564250910.M858640P38368.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564251004.M975829P24042.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564251099.M801627P27707.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei
./cur/1564251204.M608023P48105.mail.covisp.net,S=8572,W=8738:2,Saei

Etc etc.

(Also,I have tried two find the mappings for the ,Sbm and ,Saei but I do not have a dovecot-keywords file on my system anywhere (according to locate at least). I mean, I know S is Seen, but abeim are a mystery.)