On Mon 12 Dec 2022 at 14:11:38 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > There is a terrible echo in here, mbox is a pita I'd druther not have > to deal with. Some of the screwups I've had are probably directly > blamable on tbird using mbox for its database.
You don't have to, because mutt will handle mbox, mmdf, mh or maildir. > I learn best in the reading room, reading a pdf, but debians version > of mutt is html only, You wrote this two hours after I posted the text version's filename in my reply to your post further up this thread. Look: $ ls -l /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162988 Apr 23 2022 /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz > how the heck do you print that? $ zcat /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz | paps --font='FreeMono 10' --left-margin=40 --top-margin=40 --paper "letter" | ps2pdf - - >| /tmp/mutt-manual.pdf $ or even $ zcat /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz | paps --font='FreeMono 14' --left-margin=40 --top-margin=40 --paper "letter" --landscape | ps2pdf - - >| /tmp/mutt-manual.pdf $ which would consume a little over seven quires. But WV probably has sufficient trees. Cheers, David.