On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 09:28:44PM +0530, Mrinal Kalakrishnan wrote:
>Rajesh Fowkar typed:
>> I have downloaded the mutt rpm which supports compressed mailboxes.
>> What is this concept and how to implement it in mutt.
>> Can anybody put focus on this. I am these days going through mutt
>> manual and in the meanwhile learnt quite a lot of interesting
>> things. The hooks in mutt are excellent.
>
>Documentation about how to use the compressed folder support is given
>in detail in the manual.txt file which should be in
>/usr/share/doc/mutt-x.xx/ which came with the rpm. Anyway, I'll put it
>in a nutshell - you have to add extra hooks, which basically tell mutt
>how to open, close and append to, a particular type of folder.
I went through the manual in html format and searched for the compressed folder
support, could not find anything on this in the manual.
>
>Example: (taken from the manual)
>
> open-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -cd %f > %t"
> close-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -c %t > %f"
> append-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -c %t >> %f"
>
Already there in /etc/Muttrc. I even tried including this in my ~/.mutt/muttrc but no
luck.
--
Rajesh Fowkar
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