[Dovecot] compressed IMAP traffic

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Sep 22 21:14:43 EEST 2009


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.



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