Ken Lyons wrote:
Say [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends 100 emails to his co-workers. Currently each email would be copied to each users mailbox. We can configure our email system to put a SYMLINK in each users mailbox to a single copy of the email. Thus saving (99 * email size in HDD space).
This isnt an issue for bincimapd to solve since bincimapd isnt responsible for dropping mail to the users.
How ever you solve this, either by symlinking or hardlinking bincimapd will be able to atleast read the mail.
I strongly disagree by the way you are dealing with internal mail. If I was the sysadmin at your place I would start teaching ppl how to share files (if you have sharable directories in your users homedir or if you have share section folders somewhere, solutions are many) rather then to duplicate them.
If you still wish to continue I would suggest setting up a shared emailaddress and put a maildrop wrapper that in some way other then just droping the mail to the user puts a link of some kind to a read only copy.
Regards, Jerry -- Jerry Lundström, System Developer Section for IT and Media, Stockholms University, Sweden +46 (0)8 16 19 99 / http://www.it.su.se
