Objective ========== Goal 1: Secure *fast* downloading of email over a 56k dial-up connection. Goal 2: Support Outlook / Outlook Express
Solutions =========== Alternative 1: Create SSL tunnel (with compression enabled) from PC with Outlook to server running Courier-imap listening only on 127.0.0.1. Alternative 2: Bzip maildir folder on server, sftp to PC, unzip, export into Outlook Express compatible mailfolder - yuck! Alternative 3: Run MTA on PC, use a secure transport understood by both server MTA and PC MTA (with compression enabled). Either find/make a maildrop that delivers to Outlook Express folders, or use one of the zillions of possible IMAP/POP servers (on the PC) compatible with Outlook Express. Wow .. whole lot more steps/components/things-that-might-break than Alternative 1. Alternative 4, ..: ? Thoughts =========== "grep -ri compress ./courier-imap-1.6.2" suggests that SSL compression is not available (http://www.openssl.org/docs/ssl/SSL_COMP_add_compression_method.html). Even it it were available, do any popular mail clients understand how to negotiate a compression type for an IMAP/POP over SSL? Have I missed something? For example, perhaps there is some magic setting somewhere in the docs that show how to enable zlib compression (such as that proposed by Claus)? With the NNTP yEnc encoding, the Usenet community is squeezing as much as they can get for every byte of transmission, but for IMAP / POP3 .. ? Cheers, Henry __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
