> On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Gero Reichard wrote:
>
> > ~/.procmailrc:
> > :0
> > * ^TO_:.*mutt-users.
> > |gzip -c $s >> ~/Mail/mutt-users.gz
>
> I suggest to use compressed folders only for archive folders and not
> for incoming mail. Otherwise you risk to lose mail. In your above
Hmmm...I can't find anything about your suggest in your (quiet short)
documenmtation about this patch. ;)
> example you don't do any locking, you it's possible that multiple
> procmail instances write to the file at the same time. And don't
> forget, that it is possible that you read your mail while new mail
> arrives. This isn't supported by the compressed folders patch...
Until now I never had problems with loosing mail. So I didnt need any
"lock". BTW: Should I lock? What? Why? (As long as I'm the only
person on my computer..)
Anyway..Is this right now a problem I can fix somehow?
Well I dont really need the patch for saving space on my HD. - I just
only like the idea. :)
> Tschoeeee
Ditto. :)
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