Hmm, strange results.
My dovecot compiled on freebsd using openssl doesn't do compression. But my dovecot compiled on redhat using openssl does do it.
redhat openssl 0.9.8b freebsd openssl 0.9.7e (really old)
Quoting Ed W lists@wildgooses.com:
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