Enrico, What output do you get from the attached script? I've attached what I get for comparison - this works for me.
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mutt-541360.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
## Create an empty file :> mbox + : ## Have mutt use it > muttrc echo "set record=mbox" + echo 'set record=mbox' true | mutt -F muttrc -s "alpha" $USER + true + mutt -F muttrc -s alpha suter ## Test for the results (expect one line) grep alpha mbox + grep alpha mbox Subject: alpha ## Compress mbox gzip mbox + gzip mbox ## Have mutt use it > muttrc echo "set record=mbox.gz" + echo 'set record=mbox.gz' true | mutt -F muttrc -s "beta" $USER + true + mutt -F muttrc -s beta suter Compressed-appending to mbox.gz... ## Test for the results (expect two lines) zgrep -E 'alpha|beta' mbox.gz + zgrep -E 'alpha|beta' mbox.gz Subject: alpha Subject: beta ## Stop capturing stderr exec 2>&3 + exec Including output of `mutt -v'... Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Mark Suter <[email protected]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> Subject: none Package: mutt Version: 1.5.20-2 Severity: wishlist -- Package-specific info: Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (x86_64) ncurses: ncurses 5.7.20090803 (compiled with 5.7) libidn: 1.15 (compiled with 1.15) hcache backend: GDBM version 1.8.3. 10/15/2002 (built Jul 9 2009 11:50:20) Compile options: -DOMAIN +DEBUG -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK +USE_POP +USE_IMAP +USE_SMTP -USE_SSL_OPENSSL +USE_SSL_GNUTLS +USE_SASL +USE_GSS +HAVE_GETADDRINFO +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME +CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +COMPRESSED +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +USE_HCACHE -ISPELL SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="/var/mail" PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/etc" EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" MIXMASTER="mixmaster" To contact the developers, please mail to <[email protected]>. To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/. patch-1.5.13.cd.ifdef.2 -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (1001, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mutt depends on: ii libc6 2.9-24 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.41.8-2 common error description library ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-6 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libgnutls26 2.8.1-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgpg-error0 1.6-1 library for common error values an ii libgpgme11 1.1.8-2 GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libidn11 1.15-1 GNU Libidn library, implementation ii libk5crypto3 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C ii libkrb5-3 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090803-1+b1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsasl2-2 2.1.23.dfsg1-1 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra Versions of packages mutt recommends: ii libsasl2-modules 2.1.23.dfsg1-1 Cyrus SASL - pluggable authenticat ii locales 2.9-24 GNU C Library: National Language ( ii mime-support 3.46-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii sendmail-bin [mail-transp 8.14.3-9 powerful, efficient, and scalable Versions of packages mutt suggests: ii aspell 0.60.6-1 GNU Aspell spell-checker ii ca-certificates 20090709 Common CA certificates ii gnupg 1.4.9-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii ispell 3.1.20.0-5 International Ispell (an interacti ii mixmaster 3.0.0-3 Anonymous remailer client and serv ii openssl 0.9.8k-4 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a ii urlview 0.9-18 Extracts URLs from text Versions of packages mutt is related to: ii mutt 1.5.20-2 text-based mailreader supporting M pn mutt-dbg <none> (no description available) pn mutt-patched <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
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