Thomas -- ...and then Thomas Hurst said... % % * 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 :)
Yep :-) % % > 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. Well, zgrep takes care of that, too, but it just makes things that much tougher. It would take some front-end work. % % > 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. Hmmm... Not a bad idea. % % -- % Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.aagh.net/ % - % There's a whole WORLD in a mud puddle! % -- Doug Clifford :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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