[H-GEN] Compressing mail

[Rob Kearey]

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fbrand wrote:

> My understanding is that the compressing of mail items is not very useful
> with modern modems which compress before sending anyway. I have always
> been led to believe that if an attachment is compressed and then goes
> through the compression algorith of a modem then it emerges about the same
> size. OTOH if it is left uncompressed and then compressed by the modem the
> result is just about the same.

V.42 does selective compression, so that's not a problem. Compressing
large attachments gives useful savings between MTA's.

> Frank Brand

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