[Dovecot] alpha4 and zlib-plugin?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 16:39 -0400, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Hi,
>    I saw the zlib-plugin reference in the alpha4 ChangeLog
> notes are searched the list for info about it.  The only
> reference I found was from Timo back in March 2005.
> Questions:
> 
> 1) Is this going to become a standard part of version 1.0?

It'll always stay as a plugin since it's kind of a kludge and not very
useful for most people. I'm not sure if I'll start including plugins in
the main Dovecot tarball and make it easy to compile them either
statically to binaries or as modules. Maybe..

> 2) Any plans or ability to make it read/write to a gzipped
> mailbox, or is this possible?  Or will it always be read-only?

No plans for write-support. It's useful mostly for read-only archive
mboxes.

> 3) How does a mailbox get gzipped?  From within dovecot 
> somehow, or only by external action?

No plans for internal gzipping.

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