On 12/12/2020 13:11, Cyborg via Exim-users wrote:
> I was wondering, do modern smtp/imap/pop connections support compression ?
I've never seen it being offered for SMTP (but I've not been looking
specifically for it). It was suggested in 2016:
https://sandbox.ietf.org/doc/draft-levine-smtp-compress/
- but there was only ever a version 0 of the draft. I assume
that means there wasn't sufficient interest. Presumably it would
be of most use in bandwidth-constrained - yet with cpu cycles to
spare - environments. Billions of emails would also require
extra energy to process them.
Exim does not support that draft currently. Volunteer programming,
testing and maintenance effort would be required.
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Cheers,
Jeremy
