* David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Off-topic meandering: > I think it would be lovely to automatically compress all email before > sending and have it opened on the other end,
Gzip your message body and you'll probably find half of mutt-users have it decompressed and viewed automatically :) > but that not only gets into more MIME types (I think it could be > done pretty easily but haven't played with it, and certainly haven't > thought about the troubles of, say, searching within a compressed mail > body) That would make tools like grep pretty useless. > but also costs processing power to package up and then open up > the item. For those on a dialup link, though, it could be a real > blessing. I think it would be rather better for them if they could grab their entire mailspool gzipped; most of the time it takes to download email from a pop3d is taken up by the 'list messages, get message 1, read message 1, delete message 1, get message 2, read message 2, delete message 2...'. With each command taking upwards of 0.2s to get there and back, being able to just request 'give me all the messages you have then delete them' would speed things up no end. -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.aagh.net/ - There's a whole WORLD in a mud puddle! -- Doug Clifford
