muttprint - pretty printing of mails with Mutt
muttprint [options]... [-f file]
This manual page documents briefly the Muttprint utility.
This manual page was written originally written for the Debian GNU/Linux
distribution because the original program did not have a manual page, but
now I took over this man page in POD-format.
Muttprint is a utility that formats the printing of Mutt
and other mail clients like XFMail or PINE to be like the printing of
Netscape Messenger or Kmail. It can print a little penguin on the first page
and a headline on every page. Furthermore, it only prints the most important
headers, but not the whole plethora of them.
For detailed information about Muttprint look read the User's
guide in PDF and HTML format at /usr/share/doc/muttprint/.
Anyway, you have to put the following line in your
/etc/Muttrc or ~/.muttrc:
set print_command="muttprint"
If you want to customize the settings of Muttprint, just
copy /usr/share/doc/muttprint/sample-muttprintrc-en to
/etc/Muttprintrc or ~/.muttprintrc in reliance if you want
change the settings for the whole system or one user.
Muttprint defaults to English language settings if the
environment variable LANG is not set. For example in a German
environment you should set:
export LANG=de_DE
This can for instance be done in in your local ~/.bashrc.
For a more detailed information about localization of Muttprint read
the User's guide.
PLEASE NOTICE: This options override the corresponding
settings in ~/.muttprintrc and /etc/Muttprintrc.
And here's the description of all command line options (a
descriptions of the settings in the rcfile is included in the
sample-muttprintrc-en distributed with Muttprint):
- -h, --help
- Prints a list of all possible options.
- -v, --version
- Prints the current version of Muttprint.
- --print-locale
- Prints out information about the current locale environment and
exits.
- -f file, --file
file
- Reads from file instead of STDIN. Useful for some mail clients as
XFMail. If file is -, Muttprint reads from
STDIN.
- -p printername,
--printer printername
- Uses another printer than the default printer or the setting in the
rcfile. You can also print in file using
TO_FILE:/path/to/file as printer name. If you would like to have
the result in STDOUT, set the printer name to -.
- -C print command,
--printcommand print command
- Sets the command which is used for printing to print command.
Thereby the string $PRINTER
is replaced by the specified printer name. CUPS support could be activated
by CUPS; alternatively you can specify any command that contains
the string $CUPS_OPTIONS
which is replaced by the options used for CUPS.
- -i file,
--penguin file
- Takes file as picture printed on the right top of the sheet.
file must contain the full path. Set file to off if
you wouldn't like to print a picture.
- -x, --x-face | -nox,
--nox-face
- Turns on or off the printing of the picture which was transmitted in the
X-Face: header. Read the documentation for a detailed
explanation.
- -t number,
--speed number
- This is the amount of time in seconds which your printer needs to print
one page. It is only necessary if you use duplex printing. Default is 30
(seconds).
- -w number,
--wait number
- Amount of time in seconds which Muttprint should wait between
printing odd and even pages for duplex printing.
- -F fontname,
--font fontname
- Here you can choose a nice font family for your printing. Possible are:
Latex, Latex-bright, Latin-modern, Times,
Utopia, Palatino, Charter, Bookman,
CentSchool, Chancery, Helvetica and
AvantGarde. If all fonts are available on your system depends of
your installed LaTeX-system. Default is Latex.
- -H, --headrule | -noH,
--noheadrule
- Here you can choose whether it should be printed a rule after the top line
on pages greater than 2 or not.
- -b, --footrule | -nob,
--nofootrule
- Here you can choose whether it should be printed a rule over the foot line
or not.
- -S style,
--frontstyle style
- Choose a style for the printing of the mail headers on the first page:
plain, border (default), Border, fbox,
shadowbox, ovalbox, Ovalbox, doublebox,
grey, greybox. Read the manual for a detailed description of
this values.
- -a headers,
--printed-headers headers
- Specify the headers that should be printed. Separate each header with
"_". Headers that are embedded in
* are printed bold; use / for italic printing. If a header
does not exist, it will be omitted. The given order is the same as on the
printing.
Two examples:
Date_To_From_CC_Newsgroups_*Subject* (default)
/Date/_To_From_X-Mailer_*/Subject/*
- -P paperformat,
--paper paperformat
- Choose your paper format: A4 in most countries ("DIN A4"
in Germany) and letter in the U.S.
- -e String,
--date String
- This option accepts two settings: original and local. If you
use original, the date will be printed unchanged as it appears in
the mail header, i. e. in English and in the sender's time zone. If set to
local, the date will be printed in the local language and in the
system's time zone. See the options --date-format and
--lang.
Examples:
original: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:43:49 +0100
local: Dienstag, 15. Januar 2002 21:43:49
(German locale)
- -E String,
--date-format String
- This options allows you to change the date format (if you've chosen
local before). The argument is a format string according to
strftime(3), e. g.:
"%A, %d. %B %Y %H:%M:%S" (standard in Germany)
"%a, %d.%m.%y %H:%M" (shorten form)
"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" (ISO format)
- -A String,
--addressformat String
- With this option you can set how mail addresses are printed. The value
original does not change the header. Otherwise you have to specify
a format string; following substitutions are done:
%r name ("real name")
%a mail address
\n newline
The default setting is
%r <%a>,\n. Moreover,
you can emphasize some parts with bold or italic printing. You have to
enclose these parts with stars ("*")
for bold or with slashes ("/") for
italics.
Example:
"/%r/ (%a),"
The quotes are necessary because the string contains spaces.
Otherwise the shell splits the string into two parts.
- -n String,
--verbatimnormal String
- This sets the options which are passed to the Verbatim environment
that is necessary to print the normal mail text. Detailed explanations are
in the user's guide. Some examples:
fontshape=it italic fonts
frame=topline border above the block
fontfamily=helvetica Helvetica font
fontsize=\Huge huge font
To combine options, you have to separate each option with a
comma, e. g. fontshape=it,fontseries=b.
- -V String,
--verbatimsig String
- Same as --verbatimnormal, but this sets how the signature is
printed. If the argument is raw, there is now discrimination
between normal text and signature.
- -D, --debug | -noD,
--nodebug
- Choose whether Muttprint writes to a log file
/tmp/muttprint.log. Useful to ask some other about help if
Muttprint doesn't work.
- -B, --background | -noB,
--nobackground
- After reading from standard input, Muttprint runs in the
background. The advantage is that the you can use mail client immediately
after start printing. The disadvantage is that error message could not be
printed anymore. So use this option only if Muttprint works
error-free on your system.
- -d, --duplex | -nod,
--noduplex
- Enables or disables duplex printing. If enabled, Muttprint prints
only odd pages and waits some time before it prints even pages.
- -2 | -1
- Prints two pages on one sheet as shown here:
+----------+----------+
| | |
| | |
| 1 | 2 |
| | |
| | |
| | |
+----------+----------+
This feature is called papersave mode in the manual and
in the rcfile.
- -g number,
--topmargin number
- Sets the top margin in millimeters.
- -G number,
--bottommargin number
- Sets the bottom margin in millimeters.
- -j number,
--leftmargin number
- Sets the left margin in millimeters.
- -J number,
--rightmargin number
- Sets the right margin in millimeters.
- -s, --rem_sig | -nos,
--norem_sig
- Removes the signature (separated by "--
") in the printing. This is useful for very long signatures.
But more and more people (or mail clients) doesn't separate the signature
correctly so this feature works not always, see also the next option.
- --sig_regexp
Regular Expression
- Sets the regular expression (in Perl syntax) used to recognize signatures.
The default is ^-- $.
- -q, --rem_quote | -noq,
--norem_quote
- Remove the quoted paragraph from the printing.
Muttprint detects the quoting with the same regular
expression as Mutt, so it should work.
- -z size,
--fontsize size
- Specifies the font size. Possible values are 10pt, 11pt and
12pt.
- -W number,
--wrapmargin number
- Controls how long the longest line could be. Longer lines are wrapped
automatically and the paragraph will be reformatted.
- -r file,
--rcfile file
- Specifies another configuration file, which is read additionally to
/etc/Muttprintrc and ~/.muttprintrc. This file overwrites
all other settings, including this one which are done by command line
parameters. (It makes no sense to include other options despite -f
if you use this option.)
- /usr/bin/muttprint
- The program Muttprint itself.
- /usr/bin/muttprint-langinfo
- Helping program for reading the system's default encoding.
- /etc/Muttprintrc
- System-wide configuration file.
- ~/.muttprintrc
- User configuration file.
- /tmp/muttprint-XXXXX
- Temporary files created by Muttprint.
- /usr/share/doc/muttprint/
- Muttprint manual files in different languages and formats.
- /usr/share/ospics/
- Some pictures which can be used for printing on the first page of your
mail.
- /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/muttprint/translations
- Translation files.
mutt(1)
Homepage: http://muttprint.sf.net
X 2000-03 Bernhard Walle
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Bernhard Walle <Bernhard.Walle@gmx.de>
Lukas Ruf <lukas.ruf@lpr.ch>