On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:25:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz". > > That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subject: gzip > And I know the condition works since if I remove the gzip pipe and just > place a filename there then it does append to it OK.
Hmmm ... worked for me here, but I'm not sure what your definition of "working" is. When I used that syntax I got a file called Mail/testing.gz, which gunzip transformed into a normal-looking mbox file. mutt, however, said (rightly) that the compressed file was not a mailbox. For what it's worth, I have procmail v3.13.1 1999/04/05 and Mutt 1.2.5i. > > How will you read mail from the compressed box? > > I was going to use zless. That should work shouldn't it? Well, only as well as "less /var/mail/$USER". That doesn't seem to me like a very effective way to read a mailing list archive with thousands of threaded messages; I have trouble when I can see all the headers. I can't think of a better way, though. Chalk it up as a wishlist bug for mutt 2.0. Rob -- Being owned by someone used to be called slavery -- now it's called commitment.