On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 13:35 -0700, Scott Haneda wrote:
My largest is about 5+ GB gzipped (I thought it was 6gb until I just checked), but I am on a 64 bit server and don't have a 2 gb filesize limit. I have several users with 2 to 3 GB inboxes on IMAP, and don't get any complaints. I
Are you saying that you can gzip a mailbox, and Dovecot will then somehow uncompress that and send the data back out to the Desktop Client as a normal looking IMAP box?
I have never heard of this tactic, and I am not finding any references to it on google, though I am probably just not understanding it and looking at the wrong search terms.
What advantage is compression rather then disk space on server?
Matt