Hello Jason On 3 Sep 2002 at 6:49, Jason Lim wrote:
> Lots of email... lots of mailing lists... i imagine that compressing > emails (of which i get maybe 50-100 each day... a chunk of that is spam, > but nonetheless it uses bandwidth) would yield very high compression > rates. We use uucp mail for dial-up mail servers. The mail is routed into our main server with smtp. We compress each file with gzip before dropping it in a uucp spool. Each dial-up server collects its mail via uucp, uncompresses with gzip and then feeds it on to exim for local delivery. We handle 300 to 500 mB of this mail per day. I have never stopped to check what the compression ratio of incoming to outgoing e-mail is. However the outgoing volumes are significantly lower. Anti-spam and anti-virus stuff on the main server filters out quite a lot junk too. How about getting yourself a server in HK. Set it up with uucp + gzip, and download it from your server in Australia. At least this is much simpler to setup than tunnels etc. The uucp is extremely solid - it never looses a byte of mail. Another consideration though, is the ratio of local to international e-mail. We have a similar (probably worse) situation with monopoly pricing in South Africa. I have considered hosting our mail server overseas. But that would mean a lot of mail gets round tripped, from SA overseas and then back to SA. Regards Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Forbes ZSD http://www.zsd.co.za Office: +27 21 683-1388 Fax: +27 21 674-1106 Snail Mail: P.O. Box 46827, Glosderry, 7702, South Africa ---------------------------------------------------------------------
