COMPRESS-CONNECT(1)

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💖 COMPRESS-CONNECT(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Dovecot corner of the manual — this one's a lil niche but it's lowkey iconic, i promise 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

compress-connect — establish a compress-aware imap connection 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

doveadm compress-connect host [port]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically, this bad boy connects you to a compression-enabled IMAP service at the given host:port. that's the vibe. 🎀

and here's the part that makes it chef's kiss: doveadm-compress-connect handles allllll the compression and decompression for you, no cap — and it flips the switch at the exact right moment, which is when the client sends the IMAP command COMPRESS DEFLATE. the way that it just knows when to turn it on?? main character energy fr fr 👑

⭐ ARGUMENTS ⭐

  • host — the hostname or ip address you wanna connect to. that's the destination, bestie 📍
  • port — the port to connect to. defaults to 143 if you don't say anything, so if you're feeling lazy it's already handled 💖

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug?? not me crying about it — tell the devs!! report bugs to the Dovecot Mailing List ⟨dovecot@dovecot.org⟩, and pls pls pls include your doveconf -n output, they need it 🥺

all the deets on how to report bugs live right here: ⟨https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html⟩

pro tip from your girl: leaving out the doveconf -n output is giving "i forgot to attach the file" energy, and nobody wants that 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

and that's the whole page, slay ✨ this was f979264, dated April 2026, brought to you by the lovely humans at Dovecot 💜 go forth and compress responsibly, bestie 🧚‍♀️🌸

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