[Dovecot] compressed mbox patch

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Oct 8 22:54:22 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 22:20 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 10:46:25PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 23:07 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > Some ages ago there existed a compressed mbox patch, but now all I can
> > > find are posting about it. Does such a beast exist and would it
> > > remotely apply to today's dovecot?
> > > 
> > > If not, is there any hope that something like that emerges?
> > 
> > It's actually included as a plugin nowadays. Just add mail_plugins =
> > zlib and you should be able to open mbox.gz files.
> 
> Thanks! I should had checked the sources first before googling :)
> 
> Could this be extended to bziped r/w mailboxes?

Sure, patches welcome ;) Perhaps it should be a separate bzip2 plugin.

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