* compressed archives
@ 2004-05-08 20:06 Karl Chen
2004-05-08 23:50 ` Miles Bader
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From: Karl Chen @ 2004-05-08 20:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
Are there any plans to support compressed versions of backends,
e.g. nnfolder? This is useful for archives. Some MUAs like mutt
transparently support compressed mboxes.
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Karl 2004-05-08 12:56
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* Re: compressed archives
2004-05-08 20:06 compressed archives Karl Chen
@ 2004-05-08 23:50 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-10 8:32 ` Martin Monsorno
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From: Miles Bader @ 2004-05-08 23:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
Karl Chen <quarl@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> Are there any plans to support compressed versions of backends,
> e.g. nnfolder? This is useful for archives. Some MUAs like mutt
> transparently support compressed mboxes.
I seem to recall that nnfolder pretty much works with compressed folders
already; have you tried it?
It's been a while since I use nnfolder, but I used to, and I often
compressed old folders. As I recall, you just had to (1) compress the
folder's mbox-file (using gzip, which automatically renames the file
from `foo' to `foo.gz'), and (2) rename references to it accordingly
(from `foo' to `foo.gz') in various places; the active list is the only
one I remember (file called `active' in the same directory).
[Also, it might depend on having emacs `auto-compression-mode' enabled.]
It might be nice if Gnus offered a `compress nnfolder' command that
automatically performed the necessary steps.
-Miles
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* Re: compressed archives
2004-05-08 23:50 ` Miles Bader
@ 2004-05-10 8:32 ` Martin Monsorno
2004-05-10 9:38 ` Reiner Steib
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From: Martin Monsorno @ 2004-05-10 8:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> It might be nice if Gnus offered a `compress nnfolder' command that
> automatically performed the necessary steps.
Or even better, a 'compress folder' command, that transforms the
folder into a "compressable" type like nnfolder, and continues.
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Martin
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* Re: compressed archives
2004-05-10 8:32 ` Martin Monsorno
@ 2004-05-10 9:38 ` Reiner Steib
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From: Reiner Steib @ 2004-05-10 9:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Mon, May 10 2004, Martin Monsorno wrote:
> Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> It might be nice if Gnus offered a `compress nnfolder' command that
>> automatically performed the necessary steps.
>
> Or even better, a 'compress folder' command, [...]
"compress folder" is misleading as other programs (e.g. Mozilla, IIRC)
use this term for the action "really delete articles that are marked
as deleted".
Bye, Reiner.
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