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Re: exim4 maildir_tag

From Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: exim4 maildir_tag
Date 2016-03-09 15:50 +0100
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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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exim4 maildir_tag Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-03-07 16:50 +0100
  Re: exim4 maildir_tag Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-03-07 18:40 +0100
    Re: exim4 maildir_tag Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-03-07 19:40 +0100
      Re: exim4 maildir_tag Christian Schmidt <Christian.Schmidt@chemie.uni-hamburg.de> - 2016-03-08 10:40 +0100
        Re: exim4 maildir_tag Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-03-08 13:30 +0100
          Re: exim4 maildir_tag Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-03-08 23:10 +0100
            Re: exim4 maildir_tag Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-03-09 15:50 +0100
              Re: exim4 maildir_tag Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-03-09 16:30 +0100
    Re: exim4 maildir_tag Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-03-07 20:30 +0100

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