[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:49:30PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:46:52PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > I installed mod_gzip.  Works *great*, has reduced my web bandwidth use a
> > bit.  Why hasnt someone created something like this for email?  Could
> > be a SMTP option, to gzip the mail streams on the fly...
> I'd love for mutt to gzip it's mbox files.  Not entirely related, but still.

You can't seek to an arbitrary point in the uncompressed data encoded in a
gzipped file.  You could have some kind of compressed mailbox format, but
compressed mbox it wouldn't be, as at the absolute minimum you'd need an
index.

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