I'm using procmail with gziped boxes, with no problems with a patch and lockfiles :
first, my .muttrc :
<cut>-------------------------
append-hook \\.gz$ "touch $HOME/.mutt_gzip.lock ; gzip -c %t >> %f ; rm -f
$HOME/.mutt_gzip.lock"
open-hook \\.gz$ "touch $HOME/.mutt_gzip.lock ; gzip -cd %f > %t"
close-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -c %t > %f ; rm -f $HOME/.mutt_gzip.lock"
</cut>-------------------------
.mutt_gzip.lock is my lockfile
second, the patch :
<cut>-------------------------
diff -urN mutt-1.2/mx.c mutt-1.1.12/mx.c
--- mutt-1.2/mx.c Wed May 10 10:44:09 2000
+++ mutt-1.1.12/mx.c Tue May 2 17:16:08 2000
@@ -915,6 +915,15 @@
else if (!ctx->changed && ctx->deleted == 0)
{
mutt_message _("Mailbox is unchanged.");
+ #ifdef USE_COMPRESSED
+ if (ctx->compressinfo) {
+ char * home = getenv("HOME");
+ char fichlock[256];
+ strcpy(fichlock,home);
+ strcat(fichlock,"/.mutt_gzip.lock");
+ unlink(fichlock);
+ }
+ #endif
mx_fastclose_mailbox (ctx);
return 0;
}
</cut>-------------------------
third, my .procmailrc :
<cut>-------------------------
:0w # Anything from Antoine Martin
* ^From.*martina.*
| proczip Antoine.gz
</cut>-------------------------
finally, the script proczip :
<cut>-------------------------
#!/bin/sh
if [ -f ${HOME}/.mutt_gzip.lock ] ;then \
cat >> $DEFAULT ; \
else \
/usr/local/gnu/bin/gzip -fcq9 >> ${MAILDIR}/$1 ; \
fi
</cut>-------------------------
Now, I'll explain how it works :
When I open a gzipped mailbox with mutt, I create a lockfile.
When procmail want to deliver a mail, it will put it in the
compressed mailbox ONLY if this mailbox is not used by mutt.
If the mailbox is used, the mail will be delivered in the
$DEFAULT mbox, which should NOT be compressed, of course.
Any idea to make this better ?
Antoine
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 04:25:29PM +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> On Sat, 20 May 2000, Zhendong wrote:
>
> > Then what about the supporting for compressed mail folders in procmail
> > when using mutt? I use procmail to deliver mails to different mail
> > folders. After I've changed the mutt folders to gz format, procmail
> > still delivers mails as uncompressed format, they can not work well
> > together.
>
> It's possible to append mails to gzipped folders by something like
>
> | gzip >> folder
>
> in your .procmailrc.
>
> 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.
>
> Tschoeeee
>
> Roland
>
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