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

[René Neumann]

Am 25.11.2013 14:12, schrieb Everton Foscarini:
> I have a relatively big installation here in the university, 1 mail
> server for 10.000 daily active accounts.
> 
> I converted from maildir to mdbox + zlib in march, and these are my
> considerations:
> 
> 1. CPU is not a problem, even delivering more than 400 messages per
> minute (blade HS21 with 2xQuad E5430 from 2008)
> 2. I used dsync to convert from maildir to mdbox, with dovecot 2.1 at
> the time.
> 
> The biggest win is the file number reduction, from 27 million to 2 million.

But this is due to the conversion to mdbox and not the compression,
isn't it?

- René