Re: [exim-dev] Support for SSL compression

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Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz
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To: exim-dev
CC: Georg v. Zezschwitz
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] Support for SSL compression
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:12:08AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
...
> > If nobody has concerns, I'd like to write an Exim path to enable
> > compression. It would be a nice "marketing" feature for an upcoming
> > release.
>
> Sure. I will certainly consider any patches you may contribute.


Basic idea:

1) Adding a global option "tls_supported_compression" to select compression
protocols to be supported for incoming connections.
e.g.: "DEFLATE:NULL".
Default should be all std-protocols that the SSL-stack supports.

2) Adding an smtp transport option "tls_prefered_compression" which contains the
   list of prefered compression protocols: E.g.:
      "DEFLATE:NULL"
   or
      "NULL"


3) Extending the logfile to log the compression protocol:

   E.g:
    ... X=TLS-1.0:RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24


Any comments?

Hopefully my wife will give me some time this weekend :-)

Regards,


Georg