This would probably be most useful on machines with more CPU than drive
space. Mind you, drive space does tend to be cheaper these days than CPU
time.
I'd be interested in stats on storage difference of 1000 E-mails with and
without the patch, as well as CPU time used with and without. I doubt anyone
has time right now ... but.
Jedi/Sector One wrote:
Here is an experimental patch against Qmail 1.03.
> 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 (especially on ReiserFS
> partitions with tails) and does not change anything to the POP3 nor SMTP
> protocols.
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