Any interest to implement RFC4978 (IMAP COMPRESS)?

[Torsten Schlabach]

Hi!

> Is there any interest to implement this extension
> in the cyrus imap server?

Yes, possibly.

There are parts of the world where bandwidth is still an issue. Think
Afghanistan, for example. If you care for details, talk to my colleague
Mike Dawson (on cc:).

Regards,
Torsten

Pascal Gienger schrieb:
> RFC 4978 [1] defines an IMAP COMPRESS command to compress IMAP data 
> communication.
> 
> Is there any interest to implement this extension in the cyrus imap server?
> 
> For low bandwith connections this could be useful but I don't know if 
> that's a typical case nowadays. Together with the IMAP IDLE command it 
> should be fine for mobile devices...
> 
> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4978
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