> On 17 Aug 2016, at 15:12, Daniel Quinn <gen...@danielquinn.org> wrote: > > I’m a Python guy, so my answer to this would be "use Python" :-) > > [The ReportLab > library](https://www.reportlab.com/docs/reportlab-userguide.pdf > <https://www.reportlab.com/docs/reportlab-userguide.pdf>) is extremely > powerful and can be used to generate a PDF for every email or a pdf for all > emails. I've not used it myself, but I hear it's very good. > > … > > At that point you have a sorted list of email objects which you can then use > ReportLab to generate a PDF.
That's a little more complicated than I hoped for. I've not used Python before. Although I'd not be opposed to learning it, it's not clear to me how I'd get ReportLab to generate a PDF from an email. I was not expecting to involve myself with decisions about fonts and heading sizes. I thought, perhaps optimistically, that there must be a command-line program to take a text email file and (discarding the unneeded headers) print it (to `lpr` or a postscript file) in formatting like the attached, just like my desktop email client does. It surprises me to think that pretty-printing an email from the command-line is something that's not been done before, but my searches are not finding relevant results. Stroller.
