[Dovecot] Bad file descriptor with maildir and bzip2 files

[Chris Burton]

> On 9/2/2008, Chris Burton (Chris at 7of9b.org) wrote:
>> Also just to let you know I've now compressed the maildir (a split of
>> gzip/bzip2 depending on which saved the most) which has reduced it
>> from 38GB to 23GB with some 1.8MB files being compressed down to 36KB
>> (emailed tiff files don't ask) which saves a lot in disk access as
>> well as disk space.
>
> wow... but I wonder what the cost is in performance?

Most of the mail compressed was from 2001-2007 and has been moved into an 
"archive" mail account which only 2/3 people currently have access to and I 
can't see it getting that much use so performance was of little concern in 
this instance.

ChrisB.