On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 16:37, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 16:20, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > > I'm using an in-house IMAP server to store my users' mail, and I've > > discovered archivemail which I run from cron to compress messages more > > than 90 days old. Archivemail seems to generate a compressed mbox file, > > but the question is how can I view this in a nice user-friendly way? > > How friendly an application is depends on the user. If you are on the > command line "zless" will open a compressed file and view it. > Unfortunately I do not know how to convince KMail to open a compressed > MBox file, though I am sure the code to do it is not difficult. > > Sorry, that is all the help I can give.
Thanks for the tip but I don't consider the command line to be friendly enough in this situation. I want non-technical users to be able to view individual messages just as they would with normal mail folders. Just trying to think of other options, is there any way of working with compressed maildirs rather than mbox files? Tom
