Hi there,

Am 09.02.2012 13:30, schrieb Charles Marcus:
[...]
>> Hmm... I suspect that Charles was thinking to something similar to
>> "DAOS", yes ...
> Yes, precisely...
[...]
>> as for the feasibility ... well, it /may/ be done inside the AFC
>> plugin;
> <snip>  excellent description of how it could work
>> this way, multiple files with the *same* content won't take up more
>> space since they'll be saved just once :)
> This is exactly what I am interested in, and why. Basic testing on my
> mailstore reveals that about 85% of the mail store is attachments, and
> 40-60% of that amount could be eliminated by deduplicating just the
> attachments.

I'm interested as well, perhaps we could work something out together.

I'm thinking about a stage between postfix and MDA (dovecot in my case)
as I already have a small script there to handle extensions.

Another idea filter that would be used through Sieve.

Naturally, discussion about more ambitious solution is welcome.

> The biggest problem that I see for someone like me is what to do about
> *existing* mailstores. Whatwe would also need is a script that runs
> against an existing mailstore that rips out the attachments

I don't see a problem here if you use Maildir. It would be almost enough 
to do
something like

move_attachments <"$mail_file" >"$tmp_file" && mv "$tmp_file" "$mail_file"

best regards,
Zrin


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