On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 04:29:35PM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote: > Hi Olaf, > > Many thanks for the helpful advice!
Please rply to the list since others might be interested too in the answers. > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:31:43PM +0200, Olaf Foellinger wrote: > > > 1) mailcap does not seem to work at all (as V.Suresh recently > > > confirmed); > > > > Works here partially with the following entries: > > > > text/html ; lynx -dump -force_html %s ; copiousoutput > > text/htm ; lynx -dump -force_html %s ; copiousoutput > > message/html ; lynx -dump -force_html %s ; copiousoutput > .. > > What version of Mutt are you using? I am using Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28), > the current version at cygwin.com, but had concluded that this version > does not support mailcap yet... I was advised to compile Mutt 1.3.x but > this is beyond my skill level. Word, PDF and Powerpoint does work here with 1.2.5i. I use 1.3.28i, 1.4 is available. > > > 3) no Muttprint or functional equivalent; > > > > in .muttrc > > > > set print_command=$HOME/bin/print > > > > $ cat ~/bin/print > > #!/bin/sh > > cat > .printout > > lpr -S <server> -P <printer> .printout > > > > where <server> is a windows print server with lpd enabled. > > Hmm. Which lpr do you use? The Cygwin lpr doesn't have an > "-S" option. I have: > > /usr/bin/lpr > /bin/lpr > /cygdrive/c/winnt/system32/lpr > > Aha...! I see the WINNT lpr does not accept stdin input, but if > I write the enscript output to a file and run WINNT lpr on that > file, it does work. At last! Well, at least I can write a script > to automate this workaround... The script is the workaround for the windows lpr. > > One can use fetchmail to fetch mail from a server and pipe them to > > procmail. Examples see on http://unixmail-w32.sourceforge.net/. > > Hmm, is it in the documentation downloaded with the binaries? > I don't see any other places it could be, and the procmail > link just leads to procmail.org...? Yes. Gruss Olaf Föllinger -- Olaf Föllinger Leiter Fachbereich IT S.E.S.A. Software und Systeme AG Alt-Moabit 91a D-10559 Berlin Germany Tel: +49 30 390722 -291 Fax: +49 30 390722 -222 Mobil: +49 173 6227080 http://www.sesa.de mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
