[Dovecot] 1.2.15 can't get zlib working

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 18:56 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> Out of curiosity, what (or who) prompted the development of the
> compressed mbox feature?  Or was it that you wanted to do it for
> maildir, and then figured you should for mbox as well?  The
> implementation seems to work ok.  The instructions just seem a
> bit...thin. :)

I think it was one of my friends saying he can't start using Dovecot
until it supports compressed mboxes.

> >> mail_plugins: zlib
> > 
> > Doesn't look like fts, fts_squat is enabled?
> 
> Stupid me.  When I enabled zlib I created a 2nd mail_plugins line.  So
> 'mail_plugins fts fts_squat' got ignored.  Didn't realize all plugins
> had to be declared in a single line directive.  I did this as part of my
> troubleshooting when zlib wasn't working, thinking putting it on it's
> own line may help--not.

With v2.0 you can do:

mail_plugins = $mail_plugins zlib
mail_plugins = $mail_plugins fts fts_squat