On Jun 20, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Ed W wrote:
Timo Sirainen wrote:
This one is the last major unimplemented v1.2 feature.
Can I make a very weak suggestion to look at that ZLIB compression
extension I think you mentioned in the past?
It would have to be done by proxying in imap-login similar to how SSL
connections are handled. But aren't you using SSL already, and why
not? Using that would give compression for free. Although I haven't
really looked at if it's already automatically enabled or if I or
clients should do something special..
Anyway, just a thought - I'm assuming that the probable
implementation is going to be fairly simple. I would think that
zlib and/or lzo would be good compressors if there is a choice of
implementations? Certainly LZO would be a good choice for faster
100mbit connections
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4978.txt specifies DEFLATE format that can
be implemented using zlib.