Re: Attachment automatic compression

From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 13:26:42 EST


On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, WC Jones wrote:

> >Christian Ferrari:
> >> Is there anything to automagically compress incoming/outcoming attachments?
> >> I'm looking for something like an intermediate relay.
>
>
> If you were only handling this in-house you could write your own with Perl and
> GTar/GZip -- re-sending the compressed message as an attachment to the
> destinantion/mailbox. However you will basically kill the intermediate server
> with this function.
>
> If size of pipe or hard disk are issues - it would be better to get a bigger
> Internet connection or bigger hard drives.
>

It is better to use compression on the network links or compression of the
mailbox store that to attempt to reconstitute the messages.

-- 
	Viktor.







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