From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: on-the-fly compression of attachments
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 07:40:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3heq7rixd.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <$.87bsuizko2.fsf@mde1.zonix.de>
Raymond Scholz <ray-2000@zonix.de> writes:
> | 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?
It quite a good idea. We could add something like "compress" or
"preprocess=gzip" or something of the kind to the MML tag.
But I'll wait until somebody tells me if it's already implemented
before I start implementing it. :-)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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