Beta release: 4.60.5 - compress attachments

[Julian Field]

Andrew MacLachlan wrote:
> I would suggest 2 rules:
> Don't zip anything when the total attachments are under say 100kb (nice to have)
>   
Good point about it being the total size, not the size of each 
attachment. I'll go for that instead of measuring the size of each 
attachment.
> Don't zip archives (zip, rar, *gz etc - base this on filename though) (nicer to have)
>
> I can't see too many people complaining if you hardcoded these. (asbestos suit on just in case)
>   
Hardcoding in one version usually upsets enough people that they become 
configurable in the next version :-)

> -Andy
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> To: MailScanner Beta-testers <mailscanner-beta at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Cc: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Monday, 28 May, 2007 4:08:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Beta release: 4.60.5 - compress attachments
>
>
>
> Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote:
>   
>> - attachment size --> makes no sense to zip a 100k file
>> - filetype --> makes no sense to zip archives, movies, mp3 etc.
>>   
>>     
> Who else wants these? The filetype checks would be done by filename 
> suffix, not by reading the actual file or launching any external program 
> (such as the 'file' command). I don't want to make this a huge 
> heavyweight beast.
>
> Zip Attachments Minimum Size = 100k
> Don't Zip Attachments Ending = .zip .rar .gz .mp3 .mpg .mpeg
>
> If I do implement either of these, this is as complicated as it's going 
> to get.
> Who wants either (please specify which one) or both of these settings?
>
> Jules
>
>   

Jules

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