On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:30:29PM +0200, Sven wrote:
> Hello, ...
>
> First, i am a long time mutt user, and find it one of the best muas around.
>
> I was asking myself if it would be possible for mutt to read a gzipped
> mailbox. I suppose this could be done using the zlib library, but have found
> no mention of it in the manpage, nor in the faq or other documents i have read
> about mutt.
>
> Actually i just made a compressed archive of my mail boxes, burnt a CD with
> them, and would like to be able to use mutt read them, without having to
> uncompress them, which takes place and processing time.
>
> Please reply to me directly, as i am not subsrcibed to this list.
yup, I've been using it for almost all my folders for a while now...
get the patch from http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/compressed/ and
recompile mutt with it. I'm running it with the 1.2.5i version (I think
:)
HTH
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