> On 14/06/2023 14:28 EEST Michael Grant via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> > wrote: > > > I’ve been playing with zlib compressed mail archives. I can’t seem to get it > to work. I followed the instructions here: > > https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/zlib_plugin/ > > I’m not interested in being able to save, just read-only would be great. > > I have some compressed mail archives, for example 2020.gz in my ~/mail/ > directory. I have some uncompressed ones too like 2021. Both are mbox > formatted. In my imap client, I see both 2020.gz and 2021 as imap folders. I > can access mail in 2021 but not in 2020.gz. It just says it’s empty. > > My local.conf has this in it: > > mail_plugins = $mail_plugins zlib > > I know for sure this is being read because if I change this to some > non-existent plugin, I see an in the log complaining about a non-existent > plugin. I’ve tried also adding in the lines for saving but no difference. > > Would love to know if there’s something more I need to do. Also, should I > expect to see a folder named 2020 instead of 2020.gz in my imap clients? My > suspicion is that dovecot is treating these as uncompressed imap folders > which it can’t read because they look like garbage. Is there some doveadm > command to get it to re-scan folders that I need to run and then realize this > is a folder using zlib? > > Michael Grant
I checked with latest main, and it seems that: - it requires the folder to be accessed as "folder.gz" - if it has any broken emails, then it will fail to read the folder. So this feature is not really working great. I would suggest to decompress your folders as workaround. Aki _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org
