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. Yeah, I get the file ~/mail/testing.gz but it is absolutely empty. Strange! > > For what it's worth, I have procmail v3.13.1 1999/04/05 and Mutt 1.2.5i.
Hmmm, I have the same versions - from potato 2.2r3. I don't understand why it doesn't work on my system :-( Mark.