Re: exim4 maildir_tag
Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 09:59:48PM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:
>> Dovecot has two (relevant) plugins. zlib compresses the stored
>> emails. This is transparent to all clients - exim provides
>> uncompressed emails, dovecot compresses them to disk and on-the-fly
>> decompresses them when serving them back to mail clients.
>>
>> There is also imap_zlib which works like the HTTP gzip extension.
>> IMAP communications are compressed, allowing fewer bytes to be sent
>> between the server and the clients.
> Very cool. I wonder (not having looked) whether this means you get a
> compressed file decompressed and then re-compressed if you enable both
> plugins, or if it's smart enough to stream the compressed files
> without decompressing them in that circumstance.
Last time I asked that question Timo corrected me and said, the mail is
decompressed after reading from disk and then compressed again for the
transmission via IMAP/POP.
Grüße,
Sven.
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