Please check that you are not overwriting mail plugins for lmtp. Or post your
doveconf -n.
Aki
> On June 10, 2017 at 11:10 AM Peter West <li...@pbw.id.au> wrote:
>
>
> Not sure what you mean. I’m using lmtp to send messages to Dovecot from
> Postfix.
>
> > On 10 Jun 2017, at 6:08 pm, Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@dovecot.fi> wrote:
> >
> > What's your LDA?
> >
> > Aki
> >
> >> On June 10, 2017 at 11:01 AM Peter West <li...@pbw.id.au> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks for that Aki.
> >>
> >> Follow-up question. I tried to initiate compression by adding
> >>
> >> mail_plugins = $mail_plugins zlib
> >>
> >> plugin {
> >> zlib_save_level = 6
> >> zlib_save = xz
> >> }
> >>
> >>
> >> to dovecot.conf. I restarted dovecot and sent one message to the server,
> >> and one message from the server. Neither was compressed. I changed the
> >> save type to
> >>
> >> zlib_save = bz2
> >>
> >> and repeated. This time the message received (in
> >> /var/vmail/<host>/<username>/cur) was not compressed, but the message in
> >> /var/vmail/<host>/<username>/.Sent/cur was bzip2 compressed.
> >>
> >> Why is the received mail not being compressed? Is this the point of the
> >> discussion about compressing old mails?
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 10 Jun 2017, at 4:43 pm, Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@dovecot.fi> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On June 10, 2017 at 5:58 AM Peter West <li...@pbw.id.au> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Concerning Maildir, the wiki page on compression has this:
> >>>>
> >>>> All mails must have ,S=<size> in their filename where <size> contains
> >>>> the original uncompressed mail size, otherwise there will be problems
> >>>> with quota calculation as well as other potential random failures. Note
> >>>> that if the filename doesn’t contain the ,S=<size> before compression,
> >>>> adding it afterwards changes the base filename and thus the message UID.
> >>>> The safest thing to do is simply to not compress such files.
> >>>>
> >>>> Further down on the same page is this:
> >>>>
> >>>> If the file does exist, rename() (mv) the compressed file over the
> >>>> original file.
> >>>> • Dovecot can now read the file, but to avoid compressing it again on
> >>>> the next run, you'll probably want to rename it again to include e.g. a
> >>>> "Z" flag in the file name to mark that it was compressed (e.g.
> >>>> 1223212411.M907959P17184.host,S=3271:2,SZ).
> >>>>
> >>>> These comments seem to contradict each. Or is there a difference between
> >>>> adding the size specifier to the filename and adding a Z flag to the end
> >>>> of the file name?
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Peter West
> >>>> p...@pbw.id.au
> >>>> And the great throng heard him gladly.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Keyword is 'base filename'. From the wiki, "The standard filename
> >>> definition is: "<base filename>:2,<flags>".". Z is a flag.
> >>>
> >>> Aki
> >>
>
