Re: Compression: all or nothing?

2023-10-02 Thread Alex King via dovecot
Coming back to this now almost a year later. Thanks for your response Patrick. On 1/12/22 13:25, Patrick Domack wrote: It's because it doesn't move email by email to alt storage, but the whole file. So the emails move as is, be them compressed or uncompressed. I don't believe the above is cor

Re: Compression: all or nothing?

2022-11-30 Thread Patrick Domack
It's because it doesn't move email by email to alt storage, but the whole file. So the emails move as is, be them compressed or uncompressed. I think you could do what you want, but passing the correct options, but I don't think it would be easy to do. I would just store them compressed a

Compression: all or nothing?

2022-11-17 Thread Alex King
Using 2.3.13 (89f716dc2) (debian package), with mdbox storage. I considering adding the zlib plugin.  I understand that reading mail can cope with either compressed or uncompressed mailboxes. I'm wondering if I can leave the main storage uncompressed, while having the alternate storage compre