[Dovecot] xz compression support
Hello,
Just wondering: Dovecot has gzip/bzip2 compression/decompression support. According to this: http://stephane.lesimple.fr/wiki/blog/lzop_vs_compress_vs_gzip_vs_bzip2_vs_l... gzip and bzip2 aren't really useful together. While gzip can offer speed and a reasonable amount of compression ratio, bzip2 is slow, especially on decompression, which Dovecot does more frequently than compression (1 vs many).
So: is it planned to include xz (liblzma) support? It would be useful especially for compressing old mails in the background (due to the resource intensity of the compression phase).
Thanks,
On 22.9.2010, at 22.38, Attila Nagy wrote:
So: is it planned to include xz (liblzma) support? It would be useful especially for compressing old mails in the background (due to the resource intensity of the compression phase).
If xz has similar library API than bzip2 or zlib, it should be easy to add. It's not really in my plans though..
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Attila Nagy
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Timo Sirainen