Have `use-long-file-names' and `compress' as a server parameter?

Have `use-long-file-names' and `compress' as a server parameter?

[Raymond Scholz]

Hi!

Wouldn't that be a good idea?  I just converted my mail stuff from
nnfolder to nnml but I want to keep the archived mail in gzipped
nnfolder format.  I definitely do not want long file names for nnml
(for various reasons) but need them for nnfolder zipping to work.

And it would be even more cool to have a server parameter for
forcing compressed storage of all messages.

See this article for nnml gzipped storage:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=nnmail+patch+jka-compr&hl=de&safe=off&scoring=d&rnum=1&selm=nfwv4pa57v.fsf%40slbh08.bln.sel.alcatel.de

Difficult?

Cheers, Ray
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Re: Have `use-long-file-names' and `compress' as a server parameter?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Raymond Scholz <ray-2001@zonix.de> writes:

> Wouldn't that be a good idea? 

Well, compressing files is something that I'd think you'd want to do
in a batch-oriented fashion since it can be quite time consuming.
That is, you get a gazillion nnml files, and then when you run low on
disk space, you just say "gzip *" in the directory.

So I don't know whether this would be all that useful.

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Have `use-long-file-names' and `compress' as a server parameter?

[Kai Großjohann]

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

> Raymond Scholz <ray-2001@zonix.de> writes:
>
>> Wouldn't that be a good idea? 
>
> Well, compressing files is something that I'd think you'd want to do
> in a batch-oriented fashion since it can be quite time consuming.
> That is, you get a gazillion nnml files, and then when you run low on
> disk space, you just say "gzip *" in the directory.
>
> So I don't know whether this would be all that useful.

It seems that there are a number of people around who want to tell
Gnus "compress this group", and from then on all messages in that
group should be gzipped (or whatever).

kai
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Re: Have `use-long-file-names' and `compress' as a server parameter?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> It seems that there are a number of people around who want to tell
> Gnus "compress this group", and from then on all messages in that
> group should be gzipped (or whatever).

They might think they want it, but do they really want this after
they've suffered the performance hit?  :-)

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Have `use-long-file-names' and `compress' as a server parameter?

[Raymond Scholz]

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

> They might think they want it, but do they really want this after
> they've suffered the performance hit?  :-)

That's why I want it for my archive groups only.  And Gnus users were
never crazy about performance anyway...

Cheers, Ray
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