On 13.2.2012, at 16.16, Christoph Bußenius wrote: > when creating a copy of a mail, dovecot provides a feature that will store > its contents only once. In maildir, this is done by means of hard links, > while mdbox has some special refcounting mechanism. > > My question is, how can we convert mails from maildir to mdbox without > duplicating these copies? It seems that dsync does not detect the hard > links. Even if the hard-linked mails have the same GUID listed in > dovecot-uidlist, dsync creates multiple instances of the text. > - Is there some way to make dsync notice the hard links? (I used > dovecot 2.0.17)
It should deduplicate when GUIDs are the same.. I guess I'll have to look into why it's not working.
