Re: Printing an mbox

["Adam T. Bowen" <adamb@agitate.org.uk>]

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Hi,

The pine mail client (or alpine as it is now) allows you to select
multiple messages and then print them all at once (using "Apply->Print"
command after "Select"-ing messages). You can also configure your own
print commands in the configuration, so you could pipe the messages
through something to prettify them first, if you want. I don't print my
email so I haven't actually used it, so I have no idea what the actual
rendering of emails is like (unlikely that it will render HTML emails or
anything fancy by default).

I use thunderbird myself on some systems so I thought I'd give it a go
to see if I could make it print multiple messages. I selected ten
messages, clicked print, got a print preferences dialogue and clicked
okay. At that point it opened ten message windows, plus ten "printing"
dialogues, and crashed. Ho hum.

Cheers,

Adam

On 31/03/10 02:39, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an email mbox with about 500 messages in it that I'd like to
> print. Are there any command-line tools that I can use that take an
> mbox as an input (or the individual mails split with formail) and
> pretty-print them to a postscript file?
> 
> I was thinking of something like hypermail to convert it to HTML, but
> there's too many additional modifications involved. I wished
> Thunderbird would enable you to highlight multiple email messages and
> print them all to one file (a postscript printer file), but it
> doesn't.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas.
> Best regards,
> Alex
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