[Dovecot] SSL / TLS

[Ed W]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
>> As an aside, I see several other software projects now enabling the 
>> compression option when establishing an SSL connection - any chance 
>> you could look at enabling the relevant lines of code in Dovecot?  We 
>> had this conversation some months/years back and it appeared simple 
>> on the dovecot side, but there is of course only still minimal client 
>> support (but at least we can break the chicken-egg situation)
>
> I remember it was a few weeks ago :)
>


Actually that ended up being mainly about the COMPRESS protocol 
extension - that is interesting, but I personally doubt it offers much 
extra over a simple outer layer protocol compression algorithm, eg 
native SSL compression.  (However, would settle for either/both...).  
Some time back you suggested the SSL compression fix was a one liner on 
the dovecot side though?

As an aside would it help to have some sample code for zlib?  My problem 
is I don't know where to add it for the COMPRESS protocol 
implementation...  Zlib itself is pretty straightforward though.

Cheers

Ed W