[Dovecot] Zlib plugin - when does it make sense?

[Frerich Raabe]

Hi,

I run a small IMAP server for a dozen guys in the office, serving about 
55GB of Maildir. I recently became aware of the Zlib plugin ( 
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib ) and wondered

1. given that there is about zero CPU load on my IMAP server, is 
enabling the plugin a no-brainer or are there other things (except CPU 
load) to consider?

2. For enabling the plugin, I suppose you compress all the existing 
mail just once and then add 'zlib' to mail_plugins in order to have all 
future incoming mail saved?

Any insight by people familiar with the plugin would be much 
appreciated - thanks!

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Frerich Raabe - raabe at froglogic.com
www.froglogic.com - Multi-Platform GUI Testing