I want to keep some of my old mail around. I also don't want a hundred-meg
inbox, or to use up a hundred megs of disk elsewhere. So, I think
compression is in order.
When I do the obvious (to me) thing (make a copy of ~/mail/mbox, delete the
new stuff, compress it), I end up with this, as viewed from Pine:
Local folders in mail/
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...
old/
...
Opening old/:
Local folders in mail/
Dir: old/
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...
mbox.2005.11.25.bz2
...
Opening mbox.2005.11.25.bz2:
N 1 Nov 25 eben@pc.tampabay.rr.com (45.9M) /home/eben/mail/old/mbox.2005.11.25.bz2
Opening that:
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 22:43:43 -0500
From: eben@pc.tampabay.rr.com
Subject: /home/eben/mail/old/mbox.2005.11.25.bz2
[ Part 1, Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: "mbox.2005.11.25.bz2") ]
[ 45MB. ]
[ Cannot display this part. Press "V" then "S" to save in a file. ]
_Not_ what I wanted. I wanted to see the individual messages. How do I do
that, and still have it compressed? Even sucky compression will probably
turn out pretty well, as the files are mostly English text.
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