Thanks! I didn't have to apply any patch. There's a precompiled binary for my OS:
mutt-1.4.2.3-compressed.tgz (OpenBSD 4.2) After that, you have to add this to your muttrc: open-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -cd %f > %t" close-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -c %t > %f" append-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -c %t >> %f" Thanks a lot, Pau 2007/11/27, Kyle Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday, November 27 at 05:43 PM, quoth Pau Amaro-Seoane: > > do you know whether it is possible to work with gzipped files and > > mutt? > > I do know! And yes, it is possible. > > > I keep every single email I get (apart from spam, of course) and the > > size of my mail directory is growing too much... With gzip I oculd > > reduce the size by about 40%. I tried to do it but mutt says it > > isn't a mail file... > > Yeah... there's a patch to mutt that makes this work. It's pretty > stable (it's been part of the Debian distro for a long time), but > isn't vanilla mutt. Anyway, the patch is here: > http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/compressed/ > > ~Kyle > - -- > The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened and the > ... greater is the security of the State. > -- Frederick Douglas, Nov 17, 1864 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Thank you for using encryption! > > iD8DBQFHTEx9BkIOoMqOI14RAjyPAJ9Su0zDv3JHBkPmy4g/wDmckuYwjQCgljbk > voZWHxwse56SJgSV/8srVJA= > =6bI+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
