Re: [Dovecot] compressed IMAP traffic

Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Sep 22, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:

...

is there anything that can be easily used to automatically compress IMAP traffic between client and server ? I was thinking if the SSL/TLS code enables some kind of compression as well.

If your OpenSSL supports it, Dovecot supports it. I recently tested this with gnutls-cli program, openssl s_client for some reason didn't support it. I've no idea if any actual IMAP clients support it.

I notice that the openssl docs require compression to be specifically enabled and are somewhat scathing about support...

http://www.openssl.org/docs/ssl/SSL_COMP_add_compression_method.html

Anyone care to comment further?

Ed