Compressed Mail
Gerald Combs
gerald at ethereal.com
Mon Sep 8 18:10:06 CDT 2003
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> Back when I ran a FIDONet BBS, there were programs that would allow you to
> compress your mail into a ZIP file, then download the file instead of having
> to download each message as a seperate, full-text transaction. Has anyone
> seen anything like this for a POP type interface?
There's always fetchmail (http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/). It can grab
mail from a variety of remote sources (POP, IMAP, SMTP ETRN, etc) and drop
them in a local mailbox. It doesn't do compression natively but you can
tunnel it over a compressed ssh link.
If you're feeling nostalgic for the DOS BBS days and/or you have an
affinity for batching up your mail, I think there are a few packages that
support QWK and SOUP files under Linux. Of course, if you're going to go
that route you may as well go all the way and set up a UUCP feed. UUCP
supports compression and can use TCP (and ssh, I think) as a transport.
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