On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:40:41PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
>
> [1] Is mutt in stable (v1.4i) ``compiled with compressed folders support
> (by running the configure script with the --enable-compressed flag)''?
Judging by the changelog.Debian.gz (which all packages should have),
yes:
mutt (1.2.5-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Added support for libc6 2.2 compressed charmaps
(Closes: #74975).
* Updated README.Debian about SSL support (Closes: #75895).
* Added the compressed folder patch (Closes: #76224).
* Removed some colorization (Closes: #77976).
-- Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:46:25 +0100
> [2] How does this work? I see these:
> open-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -cd %f > %t"
> close-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -c %t > %f"
> append-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -c %t >> %f"
That looks like mutt automatically decompresses mboxes on open into a
temporary file, and then recompresses them on close/append.
> [3] Does this work only with gzip'd mbox mail folders?
Sure looks like it.
> [4] Can this be made to work with maildir contents in TGZ format?
I'm not sure. That sounds like it would add a *lot* of overhead,
though. You could just do a similar trick as above though, if you felt
the urge, just using 'tar -zxf' and 'tar -czf' instead of 'gzip -cd' and
'gzip -c', respectively.
--
Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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