On 12.5.2010, at 14.44, Will Palmer wrote: > Googling around, I've seen a lot of messages related to compressing > individual messages in a maildir. However, what I'm really looking for > is a solution which will allow multiple messages to be compressed into a > single compressed file, while still allowing those messages to be > accessed via IMAP.
mbox is the only possibility for that. mdbox supports compression, but only one message at a time. > But really I don't even know if it's possible > to have dovecot support MBox and Maildir simultaneously, nor do I know > enough about the MBox format to even know if the IMAP-style "multiple > mailboxes" thing is possible in MBox. It is. Just create two namespaces, one for maildir (prefix="") and one for mbox (prefix=archive/). See examples in http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces > And of course, any way you slice it, 20,000 mails, > compressed or not, sent to five people, take up 100,000 mails worth of > space if you don't share them between accounts. (perhaps they could even > simply be hard-linked to the same file?) http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA : -p <path>: Path to the mail to be delivered instead of reading from stdin. If using maildir the file is hard linked to the destination if possible. This allows a single mail to be delivered to multiple users using hard links, but currently it also prevents deliver from updating cache file so it shouldn't be used unless really necessary. (v1.1+)
