[Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

[Stefan Klatt]

Hi Scott,

> Are you saying that you can gzip a mailbox, and Dovecot will then 
> somehow uncompress that and send the data back out to the Desktop 
> Client as a normal looking IMAP box?
> 
> I have never heard of this tactic, and I am not finding any references 
> to it on google, though I am probably just not understanding it and 
> looking at the wrong search terms.
I use this to save/backup older emails. 
zipped mbox = Fast, small, only one file to handle, not changeable = optimal
for backup

Stefan