[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 08:26:19PM -0800, David Passmore wrote:
> 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 - Just the INTER-SERVER traffic.  E.g., the SMTP data stream between
mail servers is compressed.

Its a CPU vs. bandwidth tradeoff, if implemented.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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