From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33611 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Raymond Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Feature request: on-the-fly compression of attachments Date: 11 Dec 2000 22:56:45 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <$.87bsuizko2.fsf@mde1.zonix.de> Reply-To: Raymond Scholz NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169686 26046 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:08:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:08:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A787D049A for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:00:46 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB24563; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:00:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:00:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA17654 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:59:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id B2A64D049A for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:00:17 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 28377 invoked by uid 0); 11 Dec 2000 22:00:04 -0000 Original-Received: from vrdn-3e36bbdb.pool.mediaways.net (HELO mde1) (62.54.187.219) by mail.gmx.net (mail04) with SMTP; 11 Dec 2000 22:00:04 -0000 Original-Received: from rscholz by mde1 with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 145aw9-00013h-00 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:56:45 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Now-Playing: Nothing Mail-Copies-To: never X-Face: ]O)gWYBDa6]mUo+jd;T+SS:"a9;q430I61MJBsu=]#J@'s0VWK;5#tHP;wj3tQf<522A0>r Wv|{j ] | If I attach a file to a mail, I often want to compress it with | gzip. So I change to the command line, call gzip on the file, attach the | compressed file, send the mail, go back to the command line and delete | the compressed file. | | Is it possible to do an on-the-fly compression in gnus? I would like | to say to gnus "attach this file, but call gzip on it first" without | manually calling gzip and manually removing the compressed file. `---- I like that idea too, because quite often I send huge plain text log files by mail, that are gzipped to less than 10% of their original size. Could this be done easily with a new MML attribute? Or is there already an implemented solution in Gnus or Emacs? Cheers, Ray -- Raymond Scholz - rscholz@zonix.de - PGP - http://www.zonix.de/