On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:37:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I thought I had this worked out, but it doesn't seem to work quite how > > it should. Bascially I want to have mail with a certain subject piped > > into a .gz file in my ~/mail directory. > > > > Here is what I had in .procmailrc: > [...] > > # testing of gzip pipe > > :0 bw: > > * ^Subject:.*gzip > > | gzip >>testing.gz > > 22:08 $ gzip --help 2>&1 | grep stdout > -c --stdout write on standard output, keep original files unchanged > > 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. > > How will you read mail from the compressed box? I was going to use zless. That should work shouldn't it?
Regards. Mark.
