Hi Scott, > 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. I use this to save/backup older emails. zipped mbox = Fast, small, only one file to handle, not changeable = optimal for backup
Stefan