Looks like it's compiler-time optional in the patch But it would mess up the mail download bar in netscape (the STAT returns the compressed sizes), and as you said "hdd is cheaper than cpu". A 100gb drive is now like 300usd, and ldap supports clustering (really really well too :) ).
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 10 March 2002 05:16 To: Franky Van Liedekerke Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: feature request Franky Van Liedekerke wrote: > > Hi all, > > it's so quit on this list, so I'm reading over my old mail and see > some features that would be nice to see in qmail-ldap: > > 1) transparent maildir compression, see: > http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/qmail-compression.patch Hi, Although maildir compression sounds like a nice idea to save hard disk space, disk space is usually cheaper than processor speed. On a heavily used IMAP server, all of that compressing and uncompressing would probably kill a machine. On a personal mail server, this could be quite nice. So, if this patch is integrated then please make it optional to use, for example by the existence of a /var/qmail/control/compression file. Mike
