[Dovecot] handling filename of compressed messages

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

On Qui, 14 Jan 2010, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:
>    got it .... so, basically, i shouldnt be using .gz at all, is that ok ?

Yes.

>    i understood that, when moving from new to cur, filename should  
> be appended of ':2,'. But filenames on new, as i understood, should  
> never be changed. As soon as they are read there (on new), they  
> should be moved to cur.
>
>    what would be the correct way of compressing messages on the new  
> directory and adding the Z flag ? Would be any problem if, when  
> compressing on new, add the ':2,' suffix ? Indeed it would be ':2,Z'  
> suffix one

How about not compressing mails still in new/? They shouldn't remain  
there for very long anyway, you could compress only the ones in cur/.



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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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