General Purpose PostScript Generating Utility
2.5.1 Interfacing With a Mailer
When you print from a mailer (or a news reader), your mailer calls a tool,
say a2ps on a part of the whole mailbox. This makes it difficult for
a2ps to guess that the file is of the type `mail'. Therefore, for
better results, make sure to tell a2ps the files are mails. The user
option `mail' (or `longmail' for longer inputs) encapsulates most
typical tuning users want to print mails (for instance, don't print all the
headers).
Most specifically, if your mailer is:
elm
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Once you are in elm, hit o to enter in the options edition menu,
hit p to edit the printer command, and enter `a2ps -=mail
%s -d'. The option `-d' means to print on the default printer.
pine
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Jan Chrillesen suggests us how to use a2ps
with the Pine mail-reader. Add the following to `.pinerc'
(of course you can put it in `pine.conf' as well):
| | # Your printer selection
printer=a2ps -=mail -d
# Special print command
personal-print-command=a2ps -=mail -d
|
