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As soon as someone uses a POP or IMAP client to fetch all of their mail your server is going to catch on fire. Even if you had POP/IMAP disabled, the computatio
by eklitzke 3y ago
As soon as someone uses a POP or IMAP client to fetch all of their mail your server is going to catch on fire. Even if you had POP/IMAP disabled, the computation costs to decode data are enormous with this method, which is precisely why people don't use the most maximally compressing codecs for anything other than true archival applications (e.g. database backups which, unlike old email, really are expected to be accessed almost never).
- londons_explore 3y agoSounds like a good reason to just ship the compressed data to the customer and say "decompress it yourself - this bellard guy makes a decompressor!"
- etiam 3y agoThat sounds like recipe for really poor relations with the sizeable fraction of customers who are more concerned with getting their data back than delighted to be introduced to a cutting-edge text compression method...
- londons_explore 3y agoA full IMAP sync of a 20 gigabyte inbox from gmail takes ~12 hours. Thats 400 kilobytes per second. And much of that is image attachments and stuff - perhaps only 10 kilobytes/second of text. Maybe Google already does this?