Hello, I am wondering if there are any possibilities to save HDD space used by emails by compressing content (not just attachements). It would be many 1000s email boxes and probably each using lot of space so would be easier if we can just compress emails somehow. Thanks, Cristian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20070214/176bff3d/attachment-0001.html>
> I am wondering if there are any possibilities to save HDD space used by > emails by compressing content (not just attachements).I'd *much* rather see work done on 'single-instance-storage' support, ala cyrus... that would do far more, in most setups, than compressing files - without adding any overhead, which compression definitely would do. Please, please, please, Timo? :) -- Best regards, Charles
Compression will save you storage space, but will cost you CPU processing power. If you have many users, you may want to trow a cheap raid1 in your server before upgrading your CPU to expensive a quad-core But is a nice idea for a small workgroup server Oliver Host Expert wrote:> Hello, > > I am wondering if there are any possibilities to save HDD space used > by emails by compressing content (not just attachements). > > It would be many 1000s email boxes and probably each using lot of > space so would be easier if we can just compress emails somehow. > > Thanks, > Cristian-- Oliver Schulze L. | Get my e-mail after a captcha in: Asuncion - Paraguay | http://tinymailto.com/oliver
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 17:09 +0200, Host Expert wrote:> > I am wondering if there are any possibilities to save HDD space used > by emails by compressing content (not just attachements). > > It would be many 1000s email boxes and probably each using lot of > space so would be easier if we can just compress emails somehow.With maildir? Dovecot already supports opening .gz mboxes, although in read-only mode with zlib plugin. With maildir then.. Well, one problem would be that Dovecot would need to somehow figure out if the file is gzipped. Using some flag in the maildir filename would probably work. This would probably be pretty easy to implement directly into Dovecot's sources, but I'd rather want it as part of the zlib plugin. I'm not sure if it's possible to implement as a plugin currently. In any case, this is pretty low priority feature to me.. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20070214/345b79ae/attachment.bin>