From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41238 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Feature request: on-the-fly compression of attachments Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 07:40:46 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <$.87bsuizko2.fsf@mde1.zonix.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176663 5034 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:04:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:04:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 28703 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2001 06:41:46 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 31 Dec 2001 06:41:46 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16Kw8P-00037g-00; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:41:21 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:41:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA08357 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:40:59 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 28691 invoked by alias); 31 Dec 2001 06:40:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28686 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2001 06:40:57 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 31 Dec 2001 06:40:57 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16Kw8a-0003Jg-00 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 07:41:32 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1009780892 12071 195.204.10.148 (31 Dec 2001 06:41:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Dec 2001 06:41:32 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Jim O'Rourke's _I'm Happy, And I'm Singing, And A 1, 2, 3, 4_: "And A 1, 2, 3, 4" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: |J 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