Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot readable compressed mail archive

2013-12-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 4.12.2013, at 20.52, Dave Hall wrote: > Is Dovecot able to create and/or read any sort of compressed mail archive? > We have a large installation with a few users who need to keep a large amount > of email available. With maildir this means a large number of individual > files, leading to

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot readable compressed mail archive

2013-12-06 Thread Dave Hall
Alan, My goal is to reduce the file count in my backups. Based on the information at the link you sent it looks like for a Maildir setup the file count remains the same. Do you know if it's possible to have a mixed config with Dovecot where for a given user the Inbox is a maildir, but the a

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot readable compressed mail archive

2013-12-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-12-04 1:52 PM, Dave Hall wrote: Is Dovecot able to create and/or read any sort of compressed mail archive? We have a large installation with a few users who need to keep a large amount of email available. With maildir this means a large number of individual files, leading to additi

[Dovecot] Dovecot readable compressed mail archive

2013-12-04 Thread Dave Hall
Hello. Is Dovecot able to create and/or read any sort of compressed mail archive? We have a large installation with a few users who need to keep a large amount of email available. With maildir this means a large number of individual files, leading to additional load on our backup process.