I'm using procmail with gziped boxes, with no problems with a patch and lockfiles :
first, my .muttrc :
cut-
append-hook \\.gz$ "touch $HOME/.mutt_gzip.lock ; gzip -c %t %f ; rm -f
$HOME/.mutt_gzip.lock"
open-hook \\.gz$ "touch $HOME/.mutt_gzip.lock ; gzip
Zhendong:
folders. After I've changed the mutt folders to gz format, procmail
still delivers mails as uncompressed format, they can not work well
together.
then run the mails through gzip. the line "| gzip folder" will append
compressed data to the folder. this has nothing to do with
clemensF proclaimed on mutt-users that:
the opposite of unix thinking, where a number of independant little
programs to their speciality bound into a framework by a smart and small
operating system, which operates the same way. your statement reveals
micro$oft thinking: give the users one big
Yuzhendo Zhendong (perhaps one and the same) --
...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said...
% Can we use Procmail to play with the compressed mail folders? Since I
% found that even when mutt can deal with compressed folders, procmail
% will not deliver mails in compressed format. So there will some
Hi clemensF, David T-G
Thank you for pointing me out :)
David T-G wrote:
I'll leave the explanation from our friend clemens alone and also leave
all of the credit for the rant :-)
Yes, you can use procmail with compressed folders by compressing your
incoming mail (| gzip -c) before it
On Sat, 20 May 2000, Zhendong wrote:
Then what about the supporting for compressed mail folders in procmail
when using mutt? I use procmail to deliver mails to different mail
folders. After I've changed the mutt folders to gz format, procmail
still delivers mails as uncompressed format,
Roland Rosenfeld:
| gzip folder
BUT DON'T DO THIS, if you do not want to loose mail!
IIRC, there is no mechanism to merge changes in the compressed folder
into the temporary uncompressed folder, so if you have a compressed
folder open for reading, while a new mail arrives and is
Suresh Ramasubramanian:
heresy Sounds a lot like emacs thinking to me :) g,dr
you, youDANGEROUS PERSON!
, they can not work well
together.
thanks.
zd
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From: Lars Hecking
Subject: Re: support for compressed folders in 1.2?
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 08:59:24 -0700
I'm making the move from 0.95.5i to 1.2 to get all
Folks-
I'm making the move from 0.95.5i to 1.2 to get all of the useful
changes therein. However, I'd been using Alain Penders' support for
compressed folders in 0.95.5i, and now can't live without it. :)
I tried just patching the existing diffs into 1.2, but of course
that failed.
heh. nevermind. found it on spinnaker. pls ignore...
eric
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:37:19AM -0400, Eric Osborne wrote:
Folks-
I'm making the move from 0.95.5i to 1.2 to get all of the useful
changes therein. However, I'd been using Alain Penders' support for
compressed folders in
I'm making the move from 0.95.5i to 1.2 to get all of the useful
changes therein. However, I'd been using Alain Penders' support for
compressed folders in 0.95.5i, and now can't live without it. :)
I tried just patching the existing diffs into 1.2, but of course
that failed.
Eric --
...and then Eric Osborne said...
% Folks-
%
% I'm making the move from 0.95.5i to 1.2 to get all of the useful
% changes therein. However, I'd been using Alain Penders' support for
% compressed folders in 0.95.5i, and now can't live without it. :)
I can imagine! That's pretty
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