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?
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