On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:20:34PM NZDT, 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? > > Ideally I would like to be able to use a standard mail client such as KMail > (or Outlook) to view the archives, accepting that it may be considerably > slower.
The way mutt handles compressed mail is to add a prefilter to the mailbox. Any mailboxes with the .gz suffix is expanded with .gz and recompressed when closed. It's a patch to mutt which is built in with debian. mutt -v will tell you what patches are installed. One thing to consider is if users should be able to save messages to an archived mailbox. Would the mailer need compress functionality as well as decompress? Greg --- -
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