[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:58:28PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> 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.

Inter-server *transport*, not MUA storage.  

E.g., when my mail server sends it to your mail server, why not compress?

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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