CaT --

Sorry I missed this when it came in; procmail misfiled it for me...

...and then CaT said...
% On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:08:53AM -0400, David T-G wrote:
% > To open a compressed mailbox, you have to decompress it, right?  So the
% > open-hook command tells mutt to unzip (gzip -d) to stdout (-c) from %f
% > (the actual folder file) to %t (the temp file); mutt is smart enough to
% > then look at the temp file.
% 
% Does this mean mutt qould keep a decompressed copy of the mailbox about

Yep.  Sure would.


% while it was opened? Or does it keep the decompressed mailbox about
% just when scanning for headers or does it just pipe the decompressed
% mailbox and not care for temp files with it in?

Nope to both.  You definitely have a big version hanging around while you
read as well as your little one.


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