[Dovecot] Implications of zlib plugin on search operations

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 13:07 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> Right now I'm compressing all mails older than 31 days and larger than
> 100k in size.
> 
> But what implications does this compression have on search queries
> performed by users (user looking for an old mail containing a certain
> string).

If you're not using any search indexes, then those will be read and
uncompressed. So beyond using a little bit more CPU, nothing.

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