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.
Yeah, I get the file ~/mail/testing.gz but it is absolutely empty.
Strange!
>
> For what it's worth, I have procmail v3.13.1 1999/04/05 and Mutt 1.2.5i.
Hmmm, I have the same versions - from potato 2.2r3. I don't understand
why it doesn't work on my system :-(
Mark.
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