[Dovecot] Dovecot readable compressed mail archive

[Charles Marcus]

On 2013-12-04 1:52 PM, Dave Hall <davehall at cs.binghamton.edu> wrote:
>
> Is Dovecot able to create and/or read any sort of compressed mail 
> archive?  We have a large installation with a few users who need to 
> keep a large amount of email available.  With maildir this means a 
> large number of individual files, leading to additional load on our 
> backup process.  Even using a compressed mbox file as an archive would 
> help, but only if Dovecot is able to interact with this file 
> seamlessly while keeping current email in the maildir format. 

Maybe http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib helps?

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