[Dovecot] Replication protocol design

[Ed W]

Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008, Ed W wrote:
>
>> I currently use a small self written proxy app which does some simple 
>> analysis of what imap client is talking and does some prefetching via 
>> pipelined commands to reduce latency and also sets up a compressed 
>> pipe back to the server.  Even over broadband it gives quite a 
>> significant speedup on large folders and on dialup it gives a huge 
>> performance boost.  Nothing too clever going on though
>>
>> Perhaps we could look at some optimisations like that in the first 
>> instance?
>
> Are you serious?  Can I have a copy!?
>

http://www.mailasail.com

We get sensible amounts of email down a 2,400 baud connection, that's 
20KB per *minute* for those of you using broadband right now...

Ed W