Hi,
I was wondering, do modern smtp/imap/pop connections support compression ?
If not, why not?
For SMTP it would be easy:
CDAT
OK
[length]{8B}
[gzipdata]{length}
.
OK
same for imap/pop, more or less, peanutcode.
For IMAP someone already made an rfc :
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4978/
I know that TLS compression is somehow bad for security, but bzip is
used in https webserver all the time, so it can't be a big problem, when
we compress data and then encrypt it, in general.
Why do i think it's a good idea in times of 100+ Mb/s at home? Billions
of emails get transported. If only 30% of all connections use it,
we get a 28% reduction in traffic used for mails.
What do you think?
best regards,
Marius
