On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 22:57:28 -0700, William Yardley sent: >Mutt will read mbox / maildir / mh mailboxes without any special >configuration. But if you want to read compressed folders, >you'll need to apply one of the compressed folder patches, >unless you are using a version which already has this patch >applied. > Patches aren't necessary to read or write to compressed mboxes, just some .muttrc wizardry, gleaned from this very mailing list: # # Archive handling... # open-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -cd %f > %t" close-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -c %t > %f" append-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -c %t >> %f" # # As above, only with BZIP2s # open-hook \\.bz2$ "bzip2 -cd %f > %t" close-hook \\.bz2$ "bzip2 -c %t > %f" append-hook \\.bz2$ "bzip2 -c %t >> %f" Hope this helps; --paj -- Pete Johns <http://johnsy.com/> Contact Information <http://johnsy.com/contact/> More On OptusNet <http://johnsy.com/20060912132225> dsc00220 <http://johnsy.com/albums/flickr/210370644>
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