On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 05:56:44PM +0000, Sam Kuper wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 12:47:10AM +0000, Globe Trotter via Mutt-users wrote: > > What is the recommended way to pretty-print mutt emails? I found a > > sourceforge perl script called muttprint but that was last updated in > > 2008, and I was wondering what folks here recommended? > > On systems without a working muttprint or equivalent, a workaround is to > pipe the email to stdin of a program with good support (word-wrapping; > pagination; choice of font) for printing plain text files. > > For instance, on GNU/Linux boxes with Gnome, while viewing the email in > Mutt, press the pipe (vertical bar) key on your keyboard, and then type > `gedit -` followed by <Enter>. You can then quickly trim headers to > taste, and use gedit's printing options to choose your desired wrapping, > pagination, typeface and font size, etc. > > -- > A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? > > () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary > /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you.
Thanks for this tip. Bob Crochelt
