From 64dc8a1ed4e15ce456a699184a4fff263f2c902f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@fripost.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 00:44:05 +0200
Subject: Add support for the IMAP COMPRESS extension [RFC4978].

Also, add traffic statistics after closing the connection to the IMAP
server.
---
 README | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'README')

diff --git a/README b/README
index 44190f3..0e93fe9 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -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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