8bit mime support? (linked to thunderbird issue)

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:

> On Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2025 23:28:51 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit JL
> wrote:
> > well it does compress, however you can't compress it on the imap server,
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but why can't the IMAP server store your emails
> compressed? Maybe you should complain to the operator of the IMAP server
> if,
> in your opinion, they are wasting storage space. Or complain to its
> authors if
> you are operate the server yourself.
>

I would hazard a guess that it relates to searching and sorting. IMAP
supports the SEARCH command. The SEARCH command allows searching on the
server based on keywords/free text, date ranges, and header fields.


> Given the insane growth of email headers it would actually make sense that
> the
> IMAP server used compression. Taking your message (as it is stored on my
> IMAP
> server) as example:
> Size of the header: 12,315 bytes
> Size of the body: 8,556 bytes.
>
> By the way, why is the body of your message base64 encoded? Was is
> re-encoded
> in flight or did your Thunderbird send your unsigned plain text message
> base64
> encoded?
>

Jeff
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