Re: [Dovecot] zlib config questions

2013-12-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 6.12.2013, at 21.28, Sven Hartge wrote: > And, please anybody correct me if I am wrong, if you use imap_zlib then > the IMAP connection is compressed as well which may allow Dovecot to > skip the decompressing state completely and just deliver the compressed > stream directly. (Althought I don

Re: [Dovecot] zlib config questions

2013-12-06 Thread Sven Hartge
Terry Barnum wrote: > I'm curious how many people here use the zlib plugin. Is it common or > is drive space cheap enough that it's not worth it to run the risk of > potential problems? HDD space may be cheap, but is also slow, therefor IOPS are very expensive. I compress the mail using zlib,

Re: [Dovecot] zlib config questions

2013-12-06 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 06.12.2013 20:18, schrieb Robert Schetterer: > Am 06.12.2013 20:01, schrieb Terry Barnum: >> Once you enable zlib, does this mean you must use it from that point on? >> Once email is compressed, if you disable the plugin does dovecot lose the >> ability to access those compressed emails? > >

Re: [Dovecot] zlib config questions

2013-12-06 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 06.12.2013 20:01, schrieb Terry Barnum: > Once you enable zlib, does this mean you must use it from that point on? Once > email is compressed, if you disable the plugin does dovecot lose the ability > to access those compressed emails? you may disable the plugin anytime, but you then have to

Re: [Dovecot] zlib config questions

2013-12-06 Thread Terry Barnum
On Dec 6, 2013, at 8:23 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: > Am 06.12.2013 17:01, schrieb Charles Marcus: >> On 2013-12-06 10:55 AM, Richard Platel wrote: >>> One gotcha if you're using maildir is, if you're planning to compress >>> old mail, make sure that the S= and W= sizes in the filenames are >>

Re: [Dovecot] zlib config questions

2013-12-06 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 06.12.2013 17:01, schrieb Charles Marcus: > On 2013-12-06 10:55 AM, Richard Platel wrote: >> One gotcha if you're using maildir is, if you're planning to compress >> old mail, make sure that the S= and W= sizes in the filenames are >> correct, > > And how do you make sure of this? Is there a s

Re: [Dovecot] zlib config questions

2013-12-06 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-12-06 10:55 AM, Richard Platel wrote: One gotcha if you're using maildir is, if you're planning to compress old mail, make sure that the S= and W= sizes in the filenames are correct, And how do you make sure of this? Is there a script? Or do you just pray? -- Best regards, */Charle

Re: [Dovecot] zlib config questions

2013-12-06 Thread Richard Platel
..@dovecot.org wrote: > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 13:55:40 -0800 > From: Terry Barnum > To: Dovecot Mailing List > Subject: [Dovecot] zlib config questions > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > After nearly running out of space I swapped

[Dovecot] zlib config questions

2013-12-05 Thread Terry Barnum
After nearly running out of space I swapped in larger disks and then saw the recent threads about zlib compression. Unfortunately I'm still confused after reading . In order to compress new email being stored do I only need to change 10-mail.conf to this: