Paul wrote:
> My working bash snippet (trimmed to remove some extraneous local oddities).
Just curious: does mhshow(1) do want you want, assuming you don't use it to
read all of your messages?
David
ken wrote:
> >Huh. ".eml". I've spent years using and part-time developing email clients
> >and servers, and never heard of that extension. Good to know.
>
> I am not sure those things are standardized, but I just Googled "eml
...
> this to say that I don't know how Thunderbird will
Paul Fox wrote:
> Once in a while my wife or I (both MH users) get an email that really
> can't be handled directly by MH. Today's example looks like this:
Me too.
> For these (relatively rare, thankfully, for us) cases, I'd love to be
> able to take an entire message, as
>You can use $ open -a seamonkey `mhpath cur`
>
>It opens it as a text file. The .eml extension is required to show
>text/thml. But with .eml extension you can just do
>
>$ open foo.eml
>
>and it will open in your default MUA. i.e. Apple Mail. If you haven't
>configured it, I don't know if it
Ken Hornstein wrote in
<20230713143447.b814036...@pb-smtp20.pobox.com>:
|>Thanks Ken! I'll be giving this a try! (I would have "just tried it
|>myself", but I don't have any modern readers installed! Small point
|>of pride, until now. :-)
|
|One note: you MIGHT have to have Thunderbird
On Jul 13, 2023, at 6:34 AM, Ken Hornstein wrote:
>
> % cp `mhpath cur` /tmp/foo.eml
> % /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird -file /tmp/foo.eml
>
> And ... it seemed to do what you want! (I chose a message with embedded
> images and they were displayed correctly). I did
>Thanks Ken! I'll be giving this a try! (I would have "just tried it
>myself", but I don't have any modern readers installed! Small point
>of pride, until now. :-)
One note: you MIGHT have to have Thunderbird configured properly as a MUA
to do this (I already had this done).
>Huh. ".eml".
ken wrote:
> >$ modern-mail-reader $(mhpath cur)
> >
> >and have it pop up a window on the message.
> >
> >Is this a practical wish?
>
> Well, I just tried this (I am on MacOS X):
>
> % cp `mhpath cur` /tmp/foo.eml
> % /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird -file
>Once in a while my wife or I (both MH users) get an email that really
>can't be handled directly by MH. Today's example looks like this:
>[...]
I hear you, dude (I also have a wife that is a nmh user as well; go
figure. I wonder how many dual-MH households there are?)
>$
Once in a while my wife or I (both MH users) get an email that really
can't be handled directly by MH. Today's example looks like this:
$ mhlist
msg part type/subtype size description
115453 multipart/related 28K
1 multipart/alternative 19K
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