On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Nadeem Hasan wrote:
> "Scot W. Hetzel" wrote:
> >
> >
> > LMTP will send the message only once to cyrus and allow cyrus to deliver the
> > message internally to the list of recipients provided during the LMTP
> > exchange with sendmail. One nice feature that this provides to cyrus is
> > single-message store, where the message is stored in the first recipients
> > mailbox, and the remaining recipients are hardlinked to this message, thus
> > saving space on the server.
>
> What happens if the first recipient tries to delete and
> expunge this message?
its a hardlink, not a softlink ... think of it has having one big central
file that everyone links to, and once all the recipients have deleted and
expunged that message, at that point in time it is removed from teh file
system ...
