is it possible to have mutt use gzipped mailboxes ?
Hello, ... First, i am a long time mutt user, and find it one of the best muas around. I was asking myself if it would be possible for mutt to read a gzipped mailbox. I suppose this could be done using the zlib library, but have found no mention of it in the manpage, nor in the faq or other documents i have read about mutt. Actually i just made a compressed archive of my mail boxes, burnt a CD with them, and would like to be able to use mutt read them, without having to uncompress them, which takes place and processing time. Please reply to me directly, as i am not subsrcibed to this list. Friendly, Sven Luther
Re: is it possible to have mutt use gzipped mailboxes ?
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:30:29PM +0200, Sven wrote: Hello, ... First, i am a long time mutt user, and find it one of the best muas around. I was asking myself if it would be possible for mutt to read a gzipped mailbox. I suppose this could be done using the zlib library, but have found no mention of it in the manpage, nor in the faq or other documents i have read about mutt. Actually i just made a compressed archive of my mail boxes, burnt a CD with them, and would like to be able to use mutt read them, without having to uncompress them, which takes place and processing time. Please reply to me directly, as i am not subsrcibed to this list. yup, I've been using it for almost all my folders for a while now... get the patch from http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/compressed/ and recompile mutt with it. I'm running it with the 1.2.5i version (I think :) HTH -- Dan Boger Linux MVP brainbench.com PGP signature
Re: is it possible to have mutt use gzipped mailboxes ?
Sven wrote: I was asking myself if it would be possible for mutt to read a gzipped mailbox. I suppose this could be done using the zlib library, but have found no mention of it in the manpage, nor in the faq or other documents i have read about mutt. hrmm http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/compressed/ (linked from) http://www.mutt.org/links.html under 'Mutt User Patches' this link also came up at the top of a google search for 'gzipped folders' hth w -- GPG Public Key: http://infinitejazz.net/will/pgp/
Re: is it possible to have mutt use gzipped mailboxes ?
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 Sven wrote: First, i am a long time mutt user, and find it one of the best muas around. Just one of the best? What's wrong with you? ;-) I was asking myself if it would be possible for mutt to read a gzipped mailbox. There's compressed folder patch from Roland Rosenfeld. http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/compressed/ Just give it a try. By the way - thanks to Roland for his continued work. Michael -- __ / /__ _ _ _ _ __ __ (° (°- / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / -°) °) //\ //\ // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\ \ /\\ /\\ V_/_ v_/_ Michael Tatge [EMAIL PROTECTED]\_\ _\_V _\_V PGP-Key: http://www-stud.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~tatgeml/public.key
Re: is it possible to have mutt use gzipped mailboxes ?
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:04:08PM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 Sven wrote: First, i am a long time mutt user, and find it one of the best muas around. Just one of the best? What's wrong with you? ;-) Ok, the best, (well not that i use anything else, so i cannot really judge :)) I was asking myself if it would be possible for mutt to read a gzipped mailbox. There's compressed folder patch from Roland Rosenfeld. http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/compressed/ Thanks for all three of you for having replied, i will give it a try nextly. BTW, any chance of having included in the main mutt tree, or are there some issues with it ? Will see if i can build a debian package with this patch included ... Friendly, Sven Luther
Re: is it possible to have mutt use gzipped mailboxes ?
Sven wrote: Will see if i can build a debian package with this patch included ... i think this is already in the debian package (for unstable anyway) if i do apt-get source, there's: 000_patch-1.3.22.1.rr.compressed in mutt-1.3.22/debian/patches and i'm pretty sure i've heard before that this patch is already in the debian version. so if you're running the debian package you can probably just set the option. if you're running potato you might want to try building the stable package on unstable (or there may be a mutt-dev package for potato). w -- GPG Public Key: http://infinitejazz.net/will/pgp/
Re: is it possible to have mutt use gzipped mailboxes ?
Will see if i can build a debian package with this patch included ... i think this is already in the debian package (for unstable anyway) snip and i'm pretty sure i've heard before that this patch is already in the debian version. According to the description here, http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/mutt.html, it may not include compressed file support, although I think I've read somewhere that some packages do (maybe it was the Mandrake RPM version ??). It doesn't 'depend' on 'zlib', so does that mean anything ?? Regards Hall
Re: is it possible to have mutt use gzipped mailboxes ?
Hall Stevenson wrote: According to the description here, http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/mutt.html, it may not include compressed file support, although I think I've read somewhere that some packages do (maybe it was the Mandrake RPM version ??). It doesn't 'depend' on 'zlib', so does that mean anything ?? well the patch is in the debian source package and: ladd% mutt -v ~ Mutt 1.3.22i (2001-08-30) Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: Linux 2.2.19 [using ncurses 5.2] Compile options: -DOMAIN +DEBUG -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK +USE_POP +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL +USE_SASL +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +COMPRESSED +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET ++HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID +HAVE_GETADDRINFO ISPELL=/usr/bin/ispell SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail MAILPATH=/var/mail PKGDATADIR=/usr/share/mutt SYSCONFDIR=/etc EXECSHELL=/bin/sh MIXMASTER=mixmaster To contact the developers, please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility. (this machine has standard debian woody mutt package on it) notice +COMPRESSED and several other random non-standard features. so i'm pretty sure this is part of the debian package. w -- GPG Public Key: http://infinitejazz.net/will/pgp/
Re: is it possible to have mutt use gzipped mailboxes ?
Will Yardley schrieb: Hall Stevenson wrote: According to the description here, http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/mutt.html, it may not include compressed file support, although I think I've read somewhere that some packages do (maybe it was the Mandrake RPM version ??). It doesn't 'depend' on 'zlib', so does that mean anything ?? well the patch is in the debian source package and: [...] (this machine has standard debian woody mutt package on it) notice +COMPRESSED and several other random non-standard features. so i'm pretty sure this is part of the debian package. Yes, it is and I'm using it without any problems here. Alex PGP signature
Re: is it possible to have mutt use gzipped mailboxes ?
snip (this machine has standard debian woody mutt package on it) notice +COMPRESSED and several other random non-standard features. so i'm pretty sure this is part of the debian package. Cool. If Debian allows this patch in, they must consider it perfectly 'stable'. I'll have to check into implementing this feature, which I believe from looking in the past, that the 'spinnaker' site has information. Hall
Re: is it possible to have mutt use gzipped mailboxes ?
Concerning compressed mailboxes, I would like to know if there is a way to know when there is a new mail in a compressed mailboxe. Right now I have gzipped mailboxes and I have them referenced with mailboxes in my muttrc. Off course I realized compressing mailboxes is usually for archive purpose but I just thought it might be easier to have some of them always compressed. thanks Jerome
