On 2014-02-27 21:13, Shenandoah Gallitz wrote:
Janos, if encryption is turned off, is compression turned off also?
no, I think compression is useful, and it can't be turned off
I'm asking from a speed perspective. On my tests of Piler vs another open-source archiving package, Piler used *much* less disk space to
what is the other product?
import the Enron corpus but was noticably slower at importing the messages, and I'm guessing that is because Piler encrypts and compresses each message and the other package is doing neither encryption or compression on the messages.
both encryption and compression are resource heavy operations, and there's another reason: pilerimport is single threaded, ie. it imports one message at a time.
Is there a way to mass unencrypt or encrypt emails already archived ?
no tool for that, and it's a pain in the ****, especially if you have mixed
files (ie. both encrypted and unencrypted messages).
Plus: If I ever would like to migrate from mailpiler to something else, which of course I cannot image at all!! :-) I have the feeling it would
:-)
be easier with unencrypted mails, which I could feed in some kind of
import utility. well, piler stores emails splitted, ie. separates attachments, so even if you have enencrypted files, you need pilerexport / pilerget (and the metadata table) to retrieve them. But the good news is that piler doesn't lock you, so whenever you find a better alternative pilerexport gives you all emails no matter if you encrypt or not.
Note that I am (at least I think I am) running piler master from 20 febr.
that version should be ok. Please run pilertest, and check the timestamp
it prints.
So mails would always be encrypted? Or would you remove encryption?
I was planning to always encrypt, but I'd keep it, since you don't want this feature. Janos
