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Enable compression on Dovecot storage

    

I’ve just discovered than compression can be applied on Dovecot mail storage. Truth is I used to run the delivery via Postfix. Now that I use OpenSMTPD and Dovecot LMTP to deliver the mail, those can be compressed for write (LMTP) and read (IMAP) process. Here’s how.

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OpenSMTPD, Dovecot and ldapd on OpenBSD 5.7

    

Looking to replace my old Postfix/Dovecot configuration with more native OpenBSD stuff, I finally ended with a configuration than seems suitable to me. I’ll be hosting virtual users and mail aliases in ldapd(8), smtpd(8) will deal with email receiving/sending and dovecot(1) will be in charge of email delivery using LMTP and email reading using IMAP. Of course, spamd(8) will do a bit of work in front of OpenSMTPD. All of those will run on OpenBSD 5.7.

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