[Dovecot] compressed IMAP traffic

[Ed W]

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