[Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

[Matt]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at 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.
>
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib
>
>
What advantage is compression rather then disk space on server?

Matt