doveadm-compress-connect(1)

doveadm-compress-connect1

Establish a compress-aware imap connection

Usage

doveadm compress-connect host [port]

Overview

Connects to a compression-enabled IMAP service at given host:port. doveadm-compress-connect takes care of the compression/decompression, and to switch it on at the appropriate moment when the client sends the IMAP command COMPRESS DEFLATE

Arguments

•

host - the hostname/ip address to connect to

•

port - the port to connect to, 143 by default

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 13
  2. Arch

Reporting bugs

Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List ⟨[email protected]⟩. Information about reporting bugs is available at: ⟨https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html⟩

From dovecot 2.4.5-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.