Sergey Spiridonov wrote: > Hi > > I found on dbmail wiki following passage: > >> Ability to store only a single copy of duplicated mail messages to >> save storage. (update: this was done already in 2.2 and trunk. It's >> called suppress_duplicates in dbmail.conf) > > AFAIK, suppress_duplicates works only when same message is delivered to > the same mailbox. If same mail is delivered (or copied) to another > mailbox, it is copied (and this is good) and not suppressed. But what > author of the original message meant, that 2 identical messages inside 2 > different mailboxes should not take double space. This is same idea as > hardlinks on filesystem. > > Is there something like this in dbmail?
Yes. But it's in the 2.3 codebase only. It's called single-instance storage, and it applies to mime-parts and header-values. > > BTW, suppressing duplicates in a way it is implemented now is sometimes > misleading. Try, for example, to delete a message and add it again when > suppress_duplicates is enabled - message will not be added. This happens > because message is still in database and is only marked for deletion, > but for enduser this is not so clear. Sounds like a bug. The support_duplicates functionality should check for message status. Please file a ticket in the bugtracker. -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
