Re: [users] Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-08 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 08 May 2001 07:24:41PM +1000): > You are totally right. (Bangs head against wall in frustration!) Thank > you, now everything works as it should. I was beginning to think I had > gremlins in my system. I hadn't even thought that gzip and date weren't > in

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I thought I had this worked out, but it doesn't seem to work quite how > it should. Bascially I want to have mail with a certain subject piped > into a .gz file in my ~/mail directory. > > Here is what I had in .procmailrc: > > PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-08 Thread mdevin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:49:23AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:05:02PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have these variables set at the top of my .procmailrc > > PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin > > MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # all mailboxes are in mail/ > > LOGFILE=/dev/null

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:05:02PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have these variables set at the top of my .procmailrc > PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin > MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # all mailboxes are in mail/ > LOGFILE=/dev/null > SHELL=/bin/sh I have /bin in my path. 02:47 $ which date /bin/date

Re: [users] Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-08 Thread Glyn Millington
On Tue, 8 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:30:59PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: >> also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 08 May 2001 01:25:37PM >> +1000): >> > > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz". >> > That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subject: gzip >> > And

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-08 Thread mdevin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:50:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:08:12AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:25:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > > > Try "| gzip -c >> testi

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-07 Thread mdevin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:08:12AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:25:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz". > > > > That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subjec

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-07 Thread ktb
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:08:12AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:25:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz". > > > > That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subjec

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:25:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz". > > That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subject: gzip > And I know the condition works since if I remove the gzip pip

Re: [users] Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-07 Thread mdevin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:30:59PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 08 May 2001 01:25:37PM +1000): > > > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz". > > That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subject: gzip > > And I know the condition works since if I remove the gzip

Re: [users] Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-07 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 08 May 2001 01:25:37PM +1000): > > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz". > That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subject: gzip > And I know the condition works since if I remove the gzip pipe and just > place a filename there then it does append to it

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-07 Thread mdevin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:37:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I thought I had this worked out, but it doesn't seem to work quite how > > it should. Bascially I want to have mail with a certain subject piped > > into a .gz file

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-07 Thread Oki DZ
Rob Mahurin wrote: > How will you read mail from the compressed box? By uncompressing it first, I guess. Oki

Re: [users] getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-07 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 08 May 2001 11:37:19AM +1000): > Now if I generate mail with Subject: gzip > it doesn't seem to work. I can see a testing.gz file that has been > created in ~/mail but it is empty. gzip does write to stdout by default. i think you might want to try to 'i' fl

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:37:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought I had this worked out, but it doesn't seem to work quite how > it should. Bascially I want to have mail with a certain subject piped > into a .gz file in my ~/mail directory. > > Here is what I had in .procmailrc: [...

getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-07 Thread mdevin
I thought I had this worked out, but it doesn't seem to work quite how it should. Bascially I want to have mail with a certain subject piped into a .gz file in my ~/mail directory. Here is what I had in .procmailrc: PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # all mailboxes are in mail/ L