Re: [LIH] compressed mailbox & mutt

[Mrinal Kalakrishnan]

Hi,

sreangsu acharyya typed:
>  just a couple of naive thoughts and queries. One can make procmail to
> send the mail through a filter, cant I, in that case if I have such a
> script which appends the stdin to gzipped folder one should be able to
> keep updating the archive on the fly. Any caveats ?

Oh sure, that's possible, in fact you can just append gzipped data to
an existing gzip file, which makes it simpler, just add something like
this to procmail:

:0:
* ^whatever: blah
| gzip -c >> lih.gz

This will work, and when you open lih.gz in mutt, it'll appear normal.
But I don't know how efficient it will be, because I suppose
compression is much better if a huge bulk is compressed at once. (Not
sure about how compression algorithms work)

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