On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:37:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought I had this worked out, but it doesn't seem to work quite how > it should. Bascially I want to have mail with a certain subject piped > into a .gz file in my ~/mail directory. > > Here is what I had in .procmailrc: [...] > # testing of gzip pipe > :0 bw: > * ^Subject:.*gzip > | gzip >>testing.gz
22:08 $ gzip --help 2>&1 | grep stdout -c --stdout write on standard output, keep original files unchanged Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz". How will you read mail from the compressed box? Rob -- "I'd love to go out with you, but I'm doing door-to-door collecting for static cling."