Hi, Oden. On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Oden Eriksson wrote: >Hi. >This would be kind of cool to have in bincimap. >http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/qmail-compression.patch >"This is a patch against the Qmail mail server. Messages will be saved in >Maildir spools as gzip files, and the POP3 server uncompresses them >on-the-fly. It may save a lot of hard disk space and does not change >anything to the POP3 nor SMTP protocols."
Quite neat. A friend of mine wondered wether or not Binc could process a mime doc and make it "mobile friendly" - that is - all non-image attachments are stripped and image attachments are resized to NxM and resampled to C colors. It would be quite cool if the mime reader could optionally pass the mime docs through a filter, a stdin-stdout executable - before it was actually parsed. We could allow a pipeline of filters to process the content with before it is displayed to the client. For most users, leaving the filter setting empty would leave the server's behavior unchanged. The content of the message identified by a UID must remain unchanged for each UIDVALIDITY assigned to the mailbox. So if a filter alters the content of a message, it must do so throughout the whole lifetime of a uidvalidity. As a little PS - the former place we worked, we concluded that the overhead of compressing 2.5 million emails every day was way too high compared with the price per megabyte ;), but we never really put any research into it.. Andy -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | Nil desperandum
