On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:08:12AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > 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.
Might want to take a look at the package - grepmail kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke