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Re: Implementation of compression technology
From: Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt_at_nospam>Date: Mon Jan 09 2012 - 08:03:23 GMT
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
* Patrick Ben Koetter <p@state-of-mind.de>:
> * Ashok Kumar J <ashok.jagathesan@gmail.com>:
> > I want to implement the compression technology in postfix mail server. so
> > that the mails which are all sending from the mail client will be the plain
> > text and it should be compressed in the postfix mail server automatically.
> > then it will send to the another mail server. there all the mails are
> > decompressed in their mail server and send to the reciever(plain text).
> > this will not be noticed to the end users. how i can implement it.
> >
> > *simply speaking,* i want to reduce the size of the message and attachments
> > by doing compression. so that it reduce the transfer rate of bytes in the
> > data channel.
>
> Don't change Postfix. Write a MILTER that does that.
Personally, I'd go for mandatory TLS between the two machines with no encryption
(but compression) - I guess Victor will correct me, but I think
that should work.
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