[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

[James Sharp]

> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:07:26PM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> >
> > nah, it would work like mod_gzip, you could configure your mail server to not
> > do compression or the mail server just doesn't know how to do compression and
> > no compression is done.  negotiate, negotiate, negotiate!
>
> Let me try to translate that... are you talking about having the messages
> sit on the mail server compressed, being decompressed by the POP client?
>
No.  Negotiate compression between MTAs and mail servers.