PyMuttPrint

Simple email pretty-printing for Mutt, in Python.

Installation

% git clone git@github.com:noah/pymuttprint.git

Usage

PyMuttPrint can be used either from the command line in standalone mode or from within mutt or another MUA.

Command line usage

% ./pymuttprint.py < /path/to/email/message && evince /tmp/texput.pdf

The file /tmp/texput.pdf contains the printed pdf -- this is because LaTeX doesn't have proper pipe semantics ... it just defaults the output to texput.pdf.

Mutt integration

Edit your .muttrc:

set print_command="/path/to/pymuttprint.py && evince /tmp/texput.pdf"
set print_decode="no"
set print_split="no"

If you want nice logging, try this for the first line above:

set print_command="/path/to/pymuttprint.py >> ~/logs/muttprint.log 2>&1 && evince /tmp/texput.pdf >> ~/logs/muttprint.log 2>&1"

What does it look like?

Click here for an example.

Customizing PDF layout

The pdf layout is fully customizable -- simply edit template.tex to modify the layout of your printed files.

Motivation (Or, "why not just use muttprint?")

muttprint is over 2000 SLOC (!) of Perl (yech)
muttprint has a manpage with a ton of unnecessary options I don't use
muttprint hasn't been updated since 2007
muttprint is broken:

I began having problems recently with muttprint -- it was complaining about a Perl library. The specific error message was:

This shouldn't happen at /usr/share/perl5/core_perl/Text/Wrap.pm
line 84

No, Perl shouldn't happen.

Other

Please send bugs/ pull requests.

noah / pymuttprint