On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 Jul 2014, at 18:22, Wolfgang Rosenauer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> been there: >> dsync -o plugin/zlib_save=gz backup -u testy >> maildir:/srv/dovecot/testy/maildir.new >> >> doesn't make a difference unfortunately. >> My mailboxes are in maildir format and besides enabling zlib I do not >> change the format. >> My testmailbox has only one message but this still is uncompressed after >> dsync. > > Maybe it's trying to copy the mails by hard linking instead of physically > copying the data. See if -o maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=no helps?
That's it indeed. I haven't thought about hardlinks but with that option the mails actually get compressed. Thanks a lot, Wolfgang
