ding and compression mode

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

Back a few years ago, I was able to compress (using an external process)
my "fatter" nnml email, and setting

 '(auto-compression-mode t nil (jka-compr))

was enough to work properly.  The email stayed compressed until I visited the
actual file, and then it ballooned into the original size if I made any
changes, until the nightly process made it smaller again.  I'm a little fuzzy
on that last point... it might just have worked to recompress it.

However, some time in the recent releases (as in, in the past year or so),
this stopped working.  Visiting these emails showed up as a "file not found".
For now, I've uncompressed everything, but I'm wondering if anyone is aware of
a change that would have broken this for NNML.

I'm sorry I can't narrow it down to anything better than "recent release".  I
was too busy at the time to track it down.

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