How can I enable/force compression?

Tue Apr 25 11:15:03 EDT 2006

Ciprian Vizitiu wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> One user has more than 20.000 messages in Inbox. And he's an Outlook user.
> And one normally does not tell the CEO what to do. So; It used to be that
> upon first login in the morning it took more some 1 minute to get the
> headers in Outlook; but ever since the upgrade from 2.2.8 to 2.2.12 and
> enabling squatter, the login has increased to 25 minutes! =:-o Which time is
> spent mostly in fetching the headers and updating the Outlook local cache. 
> 
> I've noticed that the very same operation performed via SSH (143 forwarded
> via the user's DSL) is significantly faster when I enable compression on
> SSH; funny I know, encryption should tax the whole process badly but then...
> Anyway here's my question: is there anyway that I can enable compression or
> SOMETHING?
> 
> 
> ... And then although this id definitely NOT the place to ask, maybe a kind
> soul on this list has a any constructive hints for me regarding why Outlook
> insists into re-reading all the god damn headers every-time to begin with...
> :-(

Unless its severely broken, the only time that it should have to refetch 
the headers for ALL messages is if the UIDVALIDITY of the mailbox has 
changed.  Are you reconstructing the mailbox periodically, because this 
will change UIDVALIDITY.

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University