[courier-users] Question about storage architecture? Hardlinks for multiple deliveries?

[Mitch (WebCob)]

I did some googling – I thought this idea had come up before can’t see it though  – we were reviewing the number of messages on our system with multiple recipients and came up with more than a few – my understanding is that Gmail uses a hardlink-like system to basically reference count messages received – saves on storage demands and makes their marketing needs easier…   Could something similar be accomplished with courier (not the marketing – just the storage savings!)   I’m not expecting an instant change – now or ever – just throwing out the idea to consider the relative merits and difficulties…   In our case we have condense our maildrop processing into maildroprc – users don’t run custom scripts – conceivably a single message could be delivered to ALL recipients instead of a copy for each. This would reduce processing and storage demands drastically – I see a lot of difficulties to be overcome just curious what people think.   Thanks!   m/