Thanks for the suggestion. I read all the files and duplicate
delivery suppression is barely mentioned. A lot of bugs relating to
it were apparentlyl fixed, though. ;-)
If there are other sources describing this feature, I'd love to hear
about them. If anyone has experience with the delivery suppression
feature, I'd love to hear about that, too (including how well it
works).
My understanding of it is that Sieve identifies duplicates (using
message-id) and somehow makes it so there's only one reference (I
assume by having database entries reference the canonical copy of the
message). However, does that mean that if people copied messages from
one folder to another (or one mailbox to another) that duplicate
suppression doesn't happen? Of course, by that time, messages are all
stored in a database, so maybe just the key is copied?
Thanks!
Jen
Amos Gouaux wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Wed, 30 May 2001 11:11:41 -0400,
> >>>>> Jen Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (jw) writes:
>
> jw> I read in "Managing IMAP" that Cyrus can be configured to keep
> jw> only one copy of a message that would otherwise be duplicated
> jw> many times. For example, if 10 people are on the same mailing
> jw> list, only one copy of each mailing list message would be kept.
>
> jw> How does this work? And how well does it work? The book said
> jw> that Sieve was involved, but I'm not sure why that would be the
> jw> case. For example, if someone copies a message from one
> jw> folder to another, that would result in a duplicate message, too,
> jw> and Sieve wouldn't be able to handle that, would it?
>
> you might check in the doc directory:
>
> $ grep -i 'duplicate delivery' *
> changes.html: <li> The duplicate delivery database expiration (deliver -E) was
> changes.html: <li> Fixed bugs in deliver relating to duplicate delivery
> changes.html: <li> deliver now will not use Sieve if duplicate delivery
> changes.html: duplicate delivery database to be checked even if dupelim was
> changes.html: <li> Duplicate delivery changes:
> changes.html: Split out duplicate delivery elimination to multiple
> changes.html: directory, nothing bad will happen (other than duplicate delivery
> changes.html:<li>Redo duplicate delivery elimination in <tt>deliver</tt>.
> install-perf.html:duplicate delivery suppression, each time a mail message is
>delivered
> install-upgrade.html:<li>Create some extra directories and remove the duplicate
>delivery
> install-upgrade.html:<p>Duplicate delivery suppression is now required for Sieve.
> overview.html:<li><a href="#duplicate">Duplicate Delivery Suppression</a>
> overview.html:<LI><TT>INFO</TT> - Mailbox openings, duplicate delivery suppression
> overview.html:<h3>Duplicate Delivery Suppression</h3><a name="duplicate"></a>
>
> --
> Amos
