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Re: Gzipped mbox is not a mailbox



* On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 Ismael Valladolid Torres (ivalladolidt@xxxxxxxx) 
muttered:
> I am running Mutt 1.4.2.1i on CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.5.22. I assumed mutt to
> be capable to open an read mail in a gzipped mailbox.

No, not by itself

> However when I try to I get:
> 
> /home/ivt351/Mail/y2006_archive.gz is not a mailbox.

There is Roland Rosenfeld's patch:
http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/compressed/

I've been using it for years now. Thanks for all the great work Roland.

Michael
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