Timo Sirainen wrote:

Yes, it's been in todo for some time now. mbox support would likely be read-only, read-write would require recreating the whole .gz file on updates.

Actually, I wouldn't mind seeing something like this so I can compress up my old mail and perhaps store them on CD, for example. I tend to archive mailing list traffic by month (which I store in mbox format), so past months tend to not change much, if at all. :)

While not an absolute necessity, it'd be nice to have.

--Ian.