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Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 14 2003, Sriram Karra wrote:
>
> [ ~/Mail/Incomingxxx ]
>> What I am looking for is some way to tweak this feature such that it
>> will not take up too much disk space.  (Recently I noticed that these
>> files accounted for ~65% of the size of ~/Mail/ :)
>>
>> What variables should I be looking at?
>
> I'm not aware of any predefined functionality in Gnus to do this.

WIBNIG had an option to automatically compress those files when storing
them on disk?

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