Is there any way to compress data with Exchange 2000 Server before sending it to another server?
At this time, SMTP servers do not have compression for mail. The specification for mail servers, however, includes a standard for implementing compression. The TLS extension provides message security through both compression and encryption. Encryption is usually more secure if the data is not plain text, and to make compression unpredictable, you should compress before encryption. Exchange Server supports the TLS extension. Our transport events technology also makes it very easy for Microsoft or a third-party software vendor to release an extension to Exchange 2000 that would automatically compress and decompress messages as they come into or go out of Exchange. In most cases, compression overhead taxes the CPU of the Exchange server. This reduces performance, often offsetting any network bandwidth you gained through compression. Thus, it’s probably better to build more functionality into the client, where you may have idle CPU cycles to spare, than to tax the server with compression.
