David T-G muttered: > % how can i use close-hook and append-hook for tar.gz maildirs? > > You can't use append-hook; tar doesn't support appending (or at least not > in any form that I've ever seen actually work, contrary to the promises > made by the -a switch).
Quoting tar's man page: -r, --append append files to the end of an archive Works like charm. HTH, Michael -- PGP-Key: http://www-stud.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~tatgeml/public.key