On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Nothing - except that if you have mailboxes which are gzipped, mutt will still
> read them.
>
> What you have to be careful about is not to deliver mail (say using procmail)
> directly into those mailboxes - use them for archiving mail (like if the linux
> mail folder is > 200 mails gzip it as linux-old.gz). Then you can open that
> gzip file using mutt just like any other mutt folder.
just a couple of naive thoughts and queries. One can make procmail to
send the mail through a filter, cant I, in that case if I have such a
script which appends the stdin to gzipped folder one should be able to
keep updating the archive on the fly. Any caveats ?
On the other front ( i am still a pine'er ) I had thought of having the
same kind of an utility for pine. The idea was i would open a named fifo
which would have the gzipped archive at one end. So when somebody tries to
read that file it would filter the contents through gunzip and send it to
the reader. But the problem is the same pipe cannot be used to write to
it. So I need 2 pipes, a bit of a cludge !.
On the otherhand adding a couple of lines to Pine src should i think
enable this functionality ( all i have to do is detect the file type and
pass it through the appropriate folder, for start system(" ") should be
enough i guess. But I think pine isnt GPLed.
sreangsu
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