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From: David Hedbor <david@hedbor.org>
Subject: Re: automagicly compressed nnml files
Date: 28 Oct 1997 21:09:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <od90vdi29z.fsf@frisco.inside.sealabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "25 Oct 1997 00:39:23 +0100"

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> "St. Suika Roberts" <wroberts@tvi.cc.nm.us> writes:
> 
> > It adds one variable, nnmail-article-file-suffix, which is appended to
> > the nnml-generated filename.  If one has autocompression working, this
> > will automagicly (de)compress one's mail, if one sets it to ".gz"
> 
> This is already in Gnus.  If you require `jka-compr', nnml will snarf
> gzipped articles files.

The whole point with this patch is that the files are _saved_ gzipped
per default. Loading jka-compr makes it possible to load mail files
gzipped with an external program. Not the same thing.

I can add that this patch is very useful and nice. I never have to
bother doing manual gzipping anymore. 


-- 
[ Below is a random fortune, which is unrelated to the above message. ]
BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.
		-- Seymour Papert


  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-10-29  5:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-11-18 16:13 making gnus-summary-reparent-thread work right with nnml Steinar Bang
1997-11-19  9:14 ` Steinar Bang
1997-10-24 21:01   ` automagicly compressed nnml files St. Suika Roberts
1997-10-24 23:39     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-10-26 15:39       ` Simon Josefsson
1997-10-27 11:22         ` Simon Josefsson
1997-10-29  5:09       ` David Hedbor [this message]
1997-11-05 12:50         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-11-06 23:37           ` David Hedbor
1997-11-13 21:14             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-11-18 23:14               ` David Hedbor
1997-11-23  6:08                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-11-23  6:08 ` making gnus-summary-reparent-thread work right with nnml Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-11-24 13:53   ` Steinar Bang

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