duplicatesuppression -- why?

[Nic Bernstein]

Duplicate suppression database is also used in the management of single 
instance store, which can be a big win.  Please check the documentation 
for that to see why and how it may benefit your installation.
http://cyrusimap.org/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.4.17/overview.php#singleinstance

I believe it is also used by the sieve vacation feature, but could be 
wrong about that.

Cheers,
     -nic

On 01/10/2015 09:05 AM, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> On 1/10/2015 5:51 AM, Robert Norris wrote:
>> The major problem with it in my experience is that you might actually
>> prefer the copy of the message that came through the list. For me that's
>> usually because I wanted DKIM headers or similar.
> The other problem is it involves adding computational infrastructure to
> correct minor user-error behaviors, which (as a sometimes educator) I'm
> opposed to philosophically.  The MUA I use (Thunderbird) even includes a
> "Reply List" button to prevent this.  Thanks for that response.  It's
> very clear to me that I *don't* want this feature.  FastMail is a
> completely different use case, but I'm not sure I would turn it on
> there, either.
>
> So, presumably if I use
>
>      duplicatesuppression: 0
>
> Then the duplicate_db skiplist won't even be created in the first place?
>
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