Re: reading compressed mail messages

[David Hedbor <david@hedbor.org>]

Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com> writes:

> What's the "right" way to compress mail messages such that gnus will
> deal with them?  How solid it is?  I've seen no documentation, and
> only a little bit of code that appears to handle any suffixes that
> were already set up to be handled by jka-compr at the time gnus was
> loaded (meaning loading both then updating the suffix list does the
> wrong thing).

Getting decompression to work is as easy as adding
(require 'jka-compr) to the beginning of your .emacs file. I had a
problem in the beginning, where I loaded jka-compr too late, so I now
have it first.

When it's loaded, automatic decompression works perfectly
fine. Compression is not done automatically however. I did apply
(after some munging) the previous patch which does that, and might be
able to make a new patch against the latest qgnus.

-- 
[ Below is a random fortune, which is unrelated to the above message. ]
Liar:
	one who tells an unpleasant truth.
		-- Oliver Herford