Any interest to implement RFC4978 (IMAP COMPRESS)?

[steffo76 at gmx.de]

>From the 2.3.15 Changelog:

* Added support for MUPDATE COMPRESS and IMAP COMPRESS commands which
  help speed up bulk data commands over slow links.

It actually already _is_ implemented.

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:53:27 +0000
> Von: Ian Eiloart <iane at sussex.ac.uk>
> An: Torsten Schlabach <tschlabach at gmx.net>, Pascal Gienger <Pascal.Gienger at uni-konstanz.de>
> CC: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu, Mike Dawson <mike at paiwastoon.com.af>
> Betreff: Re: Any interest to implement RFC4978 (IMAP COMPRESS)?

> 
> 
> --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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