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 1. Why doesn't archivemail support bzip2 compression in addition to gzip?
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-I am quite happy to add bzip2 support to archivemail as soon as a 'bzip2'
-module (similar to the gzip module) is available for python.  
-[ Hint hint ;) ]
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+The bzip2 module in Python 2.x is not fully compatible with the gzip module,
+and cannot be used with the current implementation of compressed mailbox
+support in archivemail.  See Python feature request #5863 for details.
 
 2. Can you add a switch to archive mailboxes greater than a certain size?
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