Ernesto Revilla Derksen
2011-Feb-22 10:06 UTC
[Dovecot] Sharing mails with other users without copying data
Hello. We would like to share mails without copying the data to another mailbox. The problem is that we use exim4 for delivery and maildir++ format. Would it be feasible to create a symlink or hardlink using the COPY or COPYlike (extension) command? Regards. Erny Ernesto Revilla Yaco Sistemas +34 954 500 057
Timo Sirainen
2011-Feb-22 10:11 UTC
[Dovecot] Sharing mails with other users without copying data
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 11:06 +0100, Ernesto Revilla Derksen wrote:> We would like to share mails without copying the data to another mailbox.What do you mean by "share"? Share how? Via IMAP protocol and shared mailboxes?> The problem is that we use exim4 for delivery and maildir++ format. > > Would it be feasible to create a symlink or hardlink using the COPY or > COPYlike (extension) command?Dovecot already tries to use hard linking when copying messages, if the permissions are compatible. Also when it delivers new mails with LMTP it tries to do this hard linking if the mail being sent has multiple RCPT TOs.