On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM Ingo Klöcker <kloec...@kde.org> wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2025 23:28:51 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit JL > wrote: > > well it does compress, however you can't compress it on the imap server, > > Pardon my ignorance, but why can't the IMAP server store your emails > compressed? Maybe you should complain to the operator of the IMAP server > if, > in your opinion, they are wasting storage space. Or complain to its > authors if > you are operate the server yourself. > I would hazard a guess that it relates to searching and sorting. IMAP supports the SEARCH command. The SEARCH command allows searching on the server based on keywords/free text, date ranges, and header fields. > Given the insane growth of email headers it would actually make sense that > the > IMAP server used compression. Taking your message (as it is stored on my > IMAP > server) as example: > Size of the header: 12,315 bytes > Size of the body: 8,556 bytes. > > By the way, why is the body of your message base64 encoded? Was is > re-encoded > in flight or did your Thunderbird send your unsigned plain text message > base64 > encoded? > Jeff
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