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 writes to the folder (>> <box>.gz).
> Be sure that you do sufficient locking (no, I still haven't really figured
> out procmmail locking and when I should specifiy a lock and when not
> and ...) to guarantee that only one stream at a time is appended to your
> mailbox; mixing two at once is bad even if the file doesn't get wiped.
>
> Before messing with all of that, though, I'd ask "why on earth are you
> delivering to a compressed folder??" because it's just one more step to
> handle. In order for mutt to read the compressed folder it's going to
> have to uncompress it to a temp file first, and you certainly don't want
> to have to mess with that every time you go to read mail. Why not
> deliver to an uncompressed mailbox (of some sort -- mbox, maildir, MH) as
> usual, read your mail as usual, and then archive (perhaps with good old
> $move though you may have to do some tweaking to tell it how to move from
> <box> to <box>.gz) to a compressed folder? The mail is still available
> in case you need to go back in time, but the stuff you're likely to use
> regularly is *easy* to use.
>
> Just my twenty millibucks; YMMV. HTH & HAND!
>
> :-D
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