[Dovecot] doveadm altmove to gzipped-mdbox

[Claus]

Timo,

thanks for your answer.
If i understand this correctly than it's not possible to work in primary 
storage with uncompressed mdbox (because of better performance) and move 
older Mails to alternate storage in compressed Format.


Am 19.05.2013 21:34, schrieb Timo Sirainen:
> On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 15:59 +0200, Claus wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> im wondering if it's possible to store old messages in a compressed
>> mdbox on alternate storage.
>> The main storage is uncompressed mdbox.
>>
>> I tried something like: doveadm -Dv -o "plugin/zlib_save=gz" altmove -u
>> testuser sentbefore 8d
>>
>> Could someone tell me if it's possible and give me a hint how this can
>> be done?
> I think that command should have worked, assuming zlib plugin was
> loaded. But it would have compressed mails in the primary storage as
> well for those files where it was moving mails away from (altmove runs
> implicit purge).
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