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authorGuilhem Moulin <guilhem@fripost.org>2015-09-09 00:44:05 +0200
committerGuilhem Moulin <guilhem@fripost.org>2015-09-09 22:01:57 +0200
commit64dc8a1ed4e15ce456a699184a4fff263f2c902f (patch)
treed3e9f4c3a9167005b6b2d4035e7d348ed5043b2f /README
parent8c9328834e3340c1d3b20a5d9567fe8cd27f6d82 (diff)
Add support for the IMAP COMPRESS extension [RFC4978].
Also, add traffic statistics after closing the connection to the IMAP server.
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@@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ type=imaps.
remote: ~user/.ssh/authorized_keys:
command="/usr/lib/dovecot/imap",no-agent-forwarding,no-port-forwarding,no-pty,no-user-rc,no-X11-forwarding ssh-... id-interimap
+However for long-lived connections (using the --watch command-line
+option), the TLS overhead becomes negligible hence the advantage offered
+by the OpenSSH ControlPersist feature is not obvious. Furthermore if
+the remote server supports the IMAP COMPRESS extension [RFC4978], adding
+compress=DEFLATE to the configuration can also greatly reduce bandwidth
+usage with regular INET sockets (type=imaps or type=imap).
+
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