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Apr 8, 2010, 12:00 PM
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Re: dovecot-1.2.11-3_108.el4.x86_64.rpm missing zlib plugins...
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On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm [at] atrpms> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 04:37:44PM -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
>> the latest dovecot rpm is missing the zlib plugins...
>> dovecot-1.2.10-2_107.el4.x86_64.rpm has them in place
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> That's on purpose and one of the reasons to start looking at
> 2.0betas: bzip support was known to be broken for some time, but
> recently there are probably similar issues with gzip as well - In a
> recent (~ two weeks old) posting the author wrote the following:
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> And looking your backtrace a bit more.. I guess it's possible that
> mbox compression in general (even with gzip) isn't working fully
> correctly in all situations. The "larger rewrite" for v2.0 included
> fixing some fundamental things, and they can't really be backported
> to v1.2.
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> Therefore I think for a stable dovecot 1.2.x package we need to remove
> zlib support. :/
> (I'm using tons of compressed mail myself, so it does hurt here as well)
I've been using the zlib plugin with dovecot 1.2 for about a month
now, with no issues. Only issue I've found is that Thunderbird
sometimes has trouble reading a message if it gets compressed later.
Reindexing the folder fixes that issue.
-Dave
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