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Re: gzipped mail files?



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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
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