Subject: Compressing Folders....?

From: [email-masked] (Ian Farrer)
Date: 11 Apr 1997 13:30:13 +0100

I have several folders in mail/ which are read very infrequently and it would
be nice to have them gzipped up to save space. But of course that turns them 
into  Application/OCTET-STREAM which can only be viewed and saved and so this
doesnt help me.

Has anyone used/written/seen/known a way to do something like this?

Ian Farrer
[email-masked]

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 13:45:22 +0200 (MET DST)

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On 11 Apr 1997, Ian Farrer wrote:

  >I have several folders in mail/ which are read very infrequently and it
  >would be nice to have them gzipped up to save space. But of course that
  >turns them into Application/OCTET-STREAM which can only be viewed and
  >saved and so this doesnt help me.

Direct solution: none

Workaround:

a) folder collections

b) script that unzips / opens pine / zips

c) zcat | .myfilter (*) | less

a) and c) are the ones I prefer. I keep my *really* old mail stored in a
separate dir and only check it when I'm looking for something. The filter
does a couple of grep -v to make the mail better readable. printmail does
the same.

Folder collections aren't much of a help, except in connection with b). Then
you could start pine for that purpose via script when you need the old mail.
Since u*ix keeps pine in the cache, opening/closing is a matter of 1 second.

Later,
Robin

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