pretty-print mutt emails

[Sam Kuper]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 12:47:10AM +0000, Globe Trotter via Mutt-users wrote:
> What is the recommended way to pretty-print mutt emails? I found a
> sourceforge perl script called muttprint but that was last updated in
> 2008, and I was wondering what folks here recommended?

On systems without a working muttprint or equivalent, a workaround is to
pipe the email to stdin of a program with good support (word-wrapping;
pagination; choice of font) for printing plain text files.

For instance, on GNU/Linux boxes with Gnome, while viewing the email in
Mutt, press the pipe (vertical bar) key on your keyboard, and then type
`gedit -` followed by <Enter>.  You can then quickly trim headers to
taste, and use gedit's printing options to choose your desired wrapping,
pagination, typeface and font size, etc.

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