compressed pop3 ... ?

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> An odd question, maybe ... but is there a way of setting up POP3 to accept
> a compressed connection?  and/or any mail readers that support such?

TLS can do compression in addition to encryption, though I'm unsure how
widely implemented it is.

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-compression-05.txt

There isn't really POP3-specific compression though.

-Rob

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