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From: jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Mail handler that uses compressed storage?
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Date: 22 Aug 90 12:17:19 GMT
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Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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In article <38129@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) writes:
> I really like MH -- it pre-sorts my mail, stores my text file archives,
> walks my dog, everything -- but leaving all of this stuff around in 
> individual uncompressed files is starting to be a pain.  Is there a 
> mail handler floating around that uses some kind of compressed archival 
> storage (compressed mbox/ar/tar/whatever, zoo, zip, arc)?  Bonus points
> for one that doesn't use the now-politically-incorrect LZW algorithm ..

I have a set of shell scripts named zrefile, zfolders, and zscan.
They handle compressed "MH folders" that are really compressed tar archives.
I use them to archive messages that I want to keep around, and might want to
put back into an un-compressed MH folder some day, but don't need that often.
They use 'compress', but they could be changed to use anything else.

For example, to add the last 5 messages from the current folder into the
archive named 'conference', you type:
	% zrefile -add last:5 -z conference

If you want a copy, send me mail.  BTW, rodan.acs.syr.edu is being
replaced by new hardware with the same name; it might take a few days.

--Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY
  jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu, JDPEEK@SUNRISE.BITNET        +1 315 443-3995