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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> Due to disk space constraints I would like to automatically compress
> nnml articles when they are saved to disk, and decompress them on
> the way back.  Does Gnus (or Emacs, behind the scenes) support such
> a thing?

I don't know.  But the 'todo' file suggests that it might just work:

  * Support for zipped folders for all backends this makes sense for.
    Most likely using jka-compr. (It has been suggested that this do
    work but I think it should be verified for all backends.)

You'd probably have to frob `nnml-use-compressed-files'.