On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 10:51 +0200, Jacek Osiecki wrote: > One question... I remember that such issue has been raised here some time > ago, but I don't know if there were any decisions made... Is there a plan > for using hard links in dovecot-LDA when the mail is going to be delivered > to many recepients... In fact lack of such functionality is the only thing > that holds me from switching in multiple locations to dovecot from > cyrus-imap, which I really don't like (it requires LDAP, which I don't > love as well ;)
It's a bit annoying to implement. I could of course always just kludge it in some way, but perhaps when shared mailbox support is finished this could be implemented more easily: - Run deliver as some kind of a master user having access to all users' mailboxes - Write the mail to some temporary mailbox - Copy it to the users' mailboxes. With maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes this'll make them hardlinks The temporary mailbox is needed because otherwise it's possible that the message gets expunged before it's copied to all the users' mailboxes.
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