Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:08:12AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:25:37PM +1000, mdevin@ozemail.com.au wrote:
> > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz".
> >
> > That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subject: gzip
> > And I know the condition works since if I remove the gzip pipe and just
> > place a filename there then it does append to it OK.
>
> Hmmm ... worked for me here, but I'm not sure what your definition of
> "working" is. When I used that syntax I got a file called
> Mail/testing.gz, which gunzip transformed into a normal-looking mbox
> file. mutt, however, said (rightly) that the compressed file was not
> a mailbox.
>
> For what it's worth, I have procmail v3.13.1 1999/04/05 and Mutt 1.2.5i.
>
> > > How will you read mail from the compressed box?
> >
> > I was going to use zless. That should work shouldn't it?
>
> Well, only as well as "less /var/mail/$USER". That doesn't seem to me
> like a very effective way to read a mailing list archive with
> thousands of threaded messages; I have trouble when I can see all the
> headers. I can't think of a better way, though. Chalk it up as a
> wishlist bug for mutt 2.0.
Might want to take a look at the package - grepmail
kent
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