[Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 16:00 -0500, Matt wrote:
> > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib
> >
> >
> What advantage is compression rather then disk space on server?

For mbox, there's no other advantage than less disk space usage. Instead
there are disadvantages, because the mbox is then read-only.

For Maildir, it might also make disk I/O usage slightly smaller but
probably not much unless you have large mails.

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