Re: exim4 maildir_tag
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.
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