[Dovecot] SSL + compression?

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Fri Jun 20 22:46:19 EEST 2008


> I don't think it does be default. The only what I know is to establish a 
> compressed SSH tunnel to your server and then access the server over the 
> tunnel. It will compress and give you an extra layer of encryption.

Umm, no. It will not compress. Think about it, encrypted data is
fundamentally not compressible, that's the whole point.

johannes
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