On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 13:35 -0700, Scott Haneda wrote: > > > My largest is about 5+ GB gzipped (I thought it was 6gb until I just > > > checked), > > > but I am on a 64 bit server and don't have a 2 gb filesize limit. I > > > have > > > several users with 2 to 3 GB inboxes on IMAP, and don't get any > > > complaints. I > > > > Are you saying that you can gzip a mailbox, and Dovecot will then > > somehow uncompress that and send the data back out to the Desktop > > Client as a normal looking IMAP box? > > > > I have never heard of this tactic, and I am not finding any references > > to it on google, though I am probably just not understanding it and > > looking at the wrong search terms. > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib > > What advantage is compression rather then disk space on server?
Matt
