paul at nfg
Jun 4, 2010, 3:24 AM
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Re: suppress duplicates, duplicate mesages and all, all, all
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Sergey Spiridonov wrote:
> Hi
>
> I found on dbmail wiki following passage:
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>> 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)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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