Any interest to implement RFC4978 (IMAP COMPRESS)?

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 19 February 2010 11:14:53 +0100 Torsten Schlabach <tschlabach at gmx.net> 
wrote:

> 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.

All of the world, actually: with increasing use of mobile devices, and 
patchy 3g coverage. I still read mail over GSM with data rates from 9.6kb/s.


> 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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