Compress attachments

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 16:51 +0200, Paolo Cravero wrote: 
> andreas.moroder at sb-brixen.it wrote:
> > Is it possible to configure cyrus the way that it compresses the  
> > attachments on the storage ( not for tranfer as in RFC 4978 ) ? I know  
> AFAIK there is no cyrus option to do this. Moreover cyrus does not separate 
> attachments from the message body, so the whole message would need to be 
> gzipped. For each and every message.
> > that diskspace is cheap, but when you have to get back thousands of  
> > mailboxes from a backup, the smaller the files are the faster the  
> > restore is done.

Why not just compress the backup/restore stream?

> Well, replicate live mailboxes data rather than rely on a single node and 
> frequent backups. :-) I'm also starting to love the delayed expunge facility 
> with respect to cheap disk space.

I could never go back to living without delayed expunge;  a fabulous
feature!
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