Dovecot, pigeonhole and hardlinks

Stephan Bosch stephan at rename-it.nl
Fri Jan 3 14:11:50 EET 2020



Op 2-1-2020 om 17:43 schreef Gionatan Danti:
> Il 23-12-2019 12:04 Gionatan Danti ha scritto:
>> On 19/12/19 11:08, Gionatan Danti wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>> many moons ago I asked about preserving hardlink between identical 
>>> messages when pigeonhole (for sieve filtering) was used.
>>>
>>> The reply was that, while hardlink worked well for non-filtered 
>>> messages, using pigeonhole broke the hardlink (ie: some 
>>> message-specific data was appended to the actual mail file). Here 
>>> you can find the original thread: 
>>> https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2015-November/102579.html
>>>
>>> I would ask the same things today: is dovecot+pigeonhole capable of 
>>> storing the same incoming message, sent to multiple rcpt or to a 
>>> group/alias expanding in multiple recipients, as a single hardlink?
>>>
>>> Note: I know about SIS, but it has some important drawback and I 
>>> would avoid using it.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> Hi all, any thoughts on the matter?
>> Thanks.
>
> Sorry for the bump, anyone with some suggestions?

I think this used to work in the past. Still need to look at this one.

Regards,

Stephan.


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