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Re: accessing filename in .muttrc



* Patrick Shanahan <WideGlide@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [10-29-03 21:13]:
> * mutt-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mutt-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [10-29-03 20:40]:
> > 
> > I want to print to PDF so I set this print-command:
> > 
> > set print_command="a2ps -o - -1gEmail --borders=no --strip=3 | ps2pdf
> > - $HOME/Maildir/mail-output.pdf"
> > 
> > I would like to use something specific to the email for the filename
> > such as date, subject, sender or filename.
> > 
> > Is there any way I can access these values in .muttrc ie. can I do
> > something like replace mail-output.pdf with something like %s ????
> 
> Not that I'm aware of, but... have a look at muttprint-0.71.tar.gz
> available at sourceforge.  It is a perl script that prints a fancy
> header and manipulates size font and position,
> 
>  -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/*
> 
> 
> You might use muttprint to print from mutt and set your print_command
> as the printer in .muttprintrc.  Then you would get what you have
> asked, I think ????

I'm in bad shape, amending my own posts, should read better.

If you print to a file from muttprint, you get ps output.  I believe
that this means that the print output is ps which you could just pipe
to ps2pdf ???
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