MUTTPRINT(1) Muttprint Short Manual MUTTPRINT(1)NAMEmuttprint - pretty printing of mails with Mutt
SYNOPSISmuttprint [options]... [-f file]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the Muttprint utility. This manual
page was written originally written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribu‐
tion 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 Messen‐
ger 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/local/share/doc/muttprint/.
Anyway, you have to put the following line in your /usr/local/etc/Mut‐
trc or ~/.muttrc:
set print_command="muttprint"
If you want to customize the settings of Muttprint, just copy
/usr/local/share/doc/muttprint/sample-muttprintrc-en to
/usr/local/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.
OPTIONS
PLEASE NOTICE: This options override the corresponding settings in
~/.muttprintrc and /usr/local/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 transmit‐
ted 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 print‐
ing. 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. Possi‐
ble are: Latex, Latex-bright, Latin-modern, Times, Utopia, Pala‐
tino, 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 Ger‐
many) 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 environ‐
ment 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 back‐
ground. The advantage is that the you can use mail client imme‐
diately 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 /usr/local/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.)
FILES
/usr/local/bin/muttprint
The program Muttprint itself.
/usr/local/bin/muttprint-langinfo
Helping program for reading the system's default encoding.
/usr/local/etc/Muttprintrc
System-wide configuration file.
~/.muttprintrc
User configuration file.
/tmp/muttprint-XXXXX
Temporary files created by Muttprint.
/usr/local/share/doc/muttprint/
Muttprint manual files in different languages and formats.
/usr/local/share/muttprint/
Some pictures which can be used for printing on the first page
of your mail.
/usr/local/lib/muttprint/translations
Translation files.
SEE ALSOmutt(1)
Homepage: http://muttprint.sf.net
COPYRIGHT
� 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 PARTICU‐
LAR PURPOSE.
AUTHOR
Bernhard Walle <Bernhard.Walle@gmx.de>
MAINTAINER
Lukas Ruf <lukas.ruf@lpr.ch<gt>
0.72 2005-05-16 MUTTPRINT(1)
