Author: W B Hacker Date: To: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] Storage sharing
jm.rodriguez@??? wrote: > Hi,
>
> Is there any way to store a one-time email and share it with symbolic links
> between multiple mailboxes?
>
> The idea is to avoid storing the same email several times in the file system
> when the message size is large.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
One could have Exim not do 'final' delivery with its normal
router/tranport sets, but either hand-off over, for example, lmtp, and
not queue it at all,
ELSE run queue-only, then implement something else 'locally' to do final
delivery AND/OR create hardlinks PLUS move the sole 'real' copy out of
the queue.
Ex: IF one handed-off a copy of the whole message with headers and
attachments, as is done with the content scanner plumbing, THEN ALSO
used a router/transport that wrote to /dev/null, there would be nothing
in that 'oversized' class going into the queue - or needing to come out
of it.
CAVEAT: Whatever animal you handed the message off to would have to be
clever, robust, and reliable.
