On 17 Aug 2019, at 1.57, @lbutlr via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote: > > On 16 Aug 19, at 07:33 , @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: >> I was looking at a mail folder and I noted that a file in the inbox had a >> total of 11 hard links to it: > > Ack. I checked the junk folder and there are 379 files in there with 379 > links! > > Since they were all in jink I just deleted them all, but that cannot possibly > be desired behavior. > > What do I check here?
Hard links are created when a mail is copied with the IMAP COPY command. So Dovecot just does what the client asks it to do. Maybe you have some misbehaving IMAP client?