Any interest to implement RFC4978 (IMAP COMPRESS)?

[Bron Gondwana]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:30:09AM +0000, Dennis Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, steffo76 at gmx.de wrote:
> 
> > From: steffo76 at gmx.de
> > To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> > Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:03:31
> > Subject: Re: Any interest to implement RFC4978 (IMAP COMPRESS)?
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> > 
> > >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.
> 
> And Bron Gondwana has posted a patch to offlineimap to
> take advantage of this.  See:
> 
> http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/2009-October/031902.html

Hehe - yeah.  I still run it myself every day.  Works fine.  I should
make some more effort to get the necessary patches integrated upstream.

Bron.