> 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 appended to
> this compressed folder, it will never been shown, but simply
> overwritten, when leaving the compressed folder with mutt.
>
> I suggest to use compressed folders only for archive folders but not
> for incoming folders.
an exception might be allowed if the folder is protected by a lock. but
when looking at the details, updating a compressed folder while it's
uncompressed temporary image is open for reading will not damage anything.
but when the folder isn't locked and =updated= by the viewer when mail is
appended at the same time, things might well go wrong.
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clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
