Ubuntu Manpage: muttprint [options]... [-f file]

SYNOPSIS

       muttprint [options]... [-f file]

DESCRIPTION

       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.

OPTIONS

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.)

FILES

       /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/muttprint/translations
              Translation files.

COPYRIGHT

       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.

AUTHOR

       Bernhard Walle <Bernhard.Walle@gmx.de>

MAINTAINER

       Lukas Ruf <lukas.ruf@lpr.ch>