Visualising contents of a Maildir

[Derek Martin]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 09:33:44PM +0000, Sam Kuper wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 09:22:31PM +0200, martin f krafft via Mutt-users wrote:
> > For reasons you don't want to know,
> 
> You may be underestimating the curiosity of your audience.

I suspect what Sam really meant was, "For reasons that would make you
sad if you knew..." =8^)

> > Is there a way to "screenshot" the Mutt index beyond the scroll
> > window?
> 
> Why would you need to?  In what way does Mutt itself not meet your
> requirements?

Presumably because in order to *share* such a visualization, i.e. with
someone remote, they would have to have a copy of the inbox AND run
Mutt.  This is not typically desireable, when essentially the
equivalent of sharing a document is the sole purpose for it.

Presumably what you'd want is an image or document that contains the
desired visualization, that can be displayed by some common tool
available to the general community, like a web browser,
company-installed word processor or similar productivity app, etc..

Mutt could still meet the need, though it would be some work.  You
could screenshot each individual page of the index, and then use an
image editing program to assemble them together.  Maybe--if the
resulting image was not too large for your application to handle.  Or
you could just paste each image into a document in a word processor,
one image per page...

It might be possible to create a virtual desktop large enough to
display the entire index at once, and then use imagemagick or similar
to capture the window to a file, but I suspect there again you may run
into memory problems.

I'm not sure any of those qualify as "something better..."

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