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From: lou@isc.intel.com (Lou Poehlitz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Compressed folders
Message-ID: <1202@intelisc.isc.intel.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 18:25:47 GMT
References: <9103210518.aa00528@maria.wustl.edu>
Organization: Intel Scientific Computers, Beaverton, OR
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mike@MARIA.WUSTL.EDU writes:


>Has anyone worked with some way for elm to save/handle compressed folders?

>Mike

>(mike@maria.wustl.edu)

No good way exists to do this now.

This is something that would be really helpful.

What I suggest is an elmrc option that allows per folder configuration.

The format could be something like:

folderconfig = "folder1,sort_order,read_program,save_program:\
               folder2,sort_order,read_program,save_program:"

If a folder was not mentioned in folderconfig, it would be treated
like a standard folder, default sort_order, etc.

For a compressed folder, the config would look like

folderconfig = "bigfolder, rev_received, uncompress, compress"

The details would need to worked out.  One might want to allow
other per folder configuration items.

I wish I had time to code it, it would be a great feature for 2.4.