Comments on: Bandwidth consumption with E-mail services http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2007/11/29/bandwidth-consumption-with-e-mail-services From the mind of Philip Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:59:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: pvanhoof http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2007/11/29/bandwidth-consumption-with-e-mail-services#comment-492 pvanhoof Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:45:00 +0000 http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2007/11/29/bandwidth-consumption-with-e-mail-services#comment-492 Note that IMAP has COMPRESS (although not all servers are implementing it) and that a good SSL implementation does compression too. So using STARTTLS should compress your connection too. Double compression has few point and deflate compression of COMPRESS is good-enough, as the data being compressed is either plain text or the compression of the binary format is used by the document-format in case of BINARY fetching (which is usually the more ideal way of compression for that document type). Note that IMAP has COMPRESS (although not all servers are implementing it) and that a good SSL implementation does compression too. So using STARTTLS should compress your connection too.

Double compression has few point and deflate compression of COMPRESS is good-enough, as the data being compressed is either plain text or the compression of the binary format is used by the document-format in case of BINARY fetching (which is usually the more ideal way of compression for that document type).

]]> By: steckel http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2007/11/29/bandwidth-consumption-with-e-mail-services#comment-493 steckel Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:47:51 +0000 http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2007/11/29/bandwidth-consumption-with-e-mail-services#comment-493 To further speed up things I am connecting to an imapproxy on my vserver through a compressed ssh-tunnel. This works well for browsing, too: Ziproxy on the vserver end, privoxy on the tablet and protocol compression through the ssh tunnel (payload is already transcoded/compressed by ziproxy) To further speed up things I am connecting to an imapproxy on my vserver through a compressed ssh-tunnel.
This works well for browsing, too: Ziproxy on the vserver end, privoxy on the tablet and protocol compression through the ssh tunnel (payload is already transcoded/compressed by ziproxy)

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