Re: duplicatesuppression -- why?

2015-01-10 Thread Alvin Starr
Duplicate suppression does not just gloss over user errors. It glosses over mail administrator errors also. Also if I am on a number of lists and someone posts to several of the lists then I can end up with several copies of the same message. It works so well that you forget about it until it bre

Re: duplicatesuppression -- why?

2015-01-10 Thread Nic Bernstein
Duplicate suppression database is also used in the management of single instance store, which can be a big win. Please check the documentation for that to see why and how it may benefit your installation. http://cyrusimap.org/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.4.17/overview.php#singleinstance I believe it is a

Re: duplicatesuppression -- why?

2015-01-10 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 1/10/2015 5:51 AM, Robert Norris wrote: > The major problem with it in my experience is that you might actually > prefer the copy of the message that came through the list. For me that's > usually because I wanted DKIM headers or similar. The other problem is it involves adding computational in

Re: duplicatesuppression -- why?

2015-01-10 Thread Robert Norris
On Sat, 10 Jan 2015, at 09:33 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote: > How often does it happen that the same message is being > delivered twice? Quite often when mailing lists are involved. You might get a reply addressed to you directly and another one via the list. Or if you're sending to a list, you might

duplicatesuppression -- why?

2015-01-10 Thread Patrick Goetz
I've been wondering about this for a while, given that there is an entire db file devoted to this task, indicating a considerable investment of resources. From the imapd.conf man page: --- duplicatesuppression: 1 If enabled, lmtpd will suppress delivery of a message to a mai