[Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot
Stefan Klatt
stefan.klatt at cac-netzwerk.de
Fri May 29 15:28:54 EEST 2009
Hi Scott,
> 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.
I use this to save/backup older emails.
zipped mbox = Fast, small, only one file to handle, not changeable = optimal
for backup
Stefan
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