5 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildropRe: [maildropl] Compressing live Mail...
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Ronan MullallyOct 18, 2004 8:35 am 
Jay LeeOct 18, 2004 8:11 pm 
Ron JohnsonOct 18, 2004 9:14 pm 
Ronan MullallyOct 19, 2004 1:21 pm 
Ron JohnsonOct 19, 2004 6:52 pm 
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Subject:Re: [maildropl] Compressing live Maildir(++) directoriesActions...
From:Ron Johnson (ron.@cox.net)
Date:Oct 18, 2004 9:14:47 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 23:11 -0400, Jay Lee wrote:

Ronan Mullally said:

Has anybody considered implementing compression within the Maildir backend of the Courier IMAP/maildrop?

Storage is cheaper than Processing. If you're putting entire Maildir folders into a single compressed file, you've just thrown out most of the advantages of Maildir's format, if you're keeping it to per file compression, your space saving isn't going to be a whole lot on your typical <4k email (to really save anything by compressing these files you'll need <4k cluster sizes for your filesystem or suballocation which is again, cpu intensive). Sure this is doable, but for live, active data these days such as mail folders, compression just doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Jay is right. Disk storage is trivially cheap nowadays.

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