On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Mrinal Kalakrishnan wrote:
> Oh sure, that's possible, in fact you can just append gzipped data to
> an existing gzip file, which makes it simpler, just add something like
> this to procmail:
>
> :0:
> * ^whatever: blah
> | gzip -c >> lih.gz
>
> This will work, and when you open lih.gz in mutt, it'll appear normal.
> But I don't know how efficient it will be, because I suppose
> compression is much better if a huge bulk is compressed at once. (Not
> sure about how compression algorithms work)
oh ofcourse, the compression would not be as good as compared to when the
native mails are cat ed to a single file and then compressed. One can
rerun gzip on the compressed file, or if one wants tobe very
particular....(putting on flame shield) uncompress the lih.gz ( this will
be same as all the mails cat ed together) and recompress it. ;)
sreangsu
p.s. How I wish pine understood compressed folders....I know I know I
should change to mutt ;)
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