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I'm using notmuch for reading and writing emails. This works fine, but sometimes I still do need to print emails. Here the available tools don't shine. Out of the box, using #, printing results in an ugly monospaced text. It's OK, but aren't there better solutions?

Looking for what is available in the Linux universe, I found tools like enscript, muttprint or a2ps. They all seem to be rather old and unflexible (e.g. with UTF8). So I thought that since I am reading the mails in Emacs anyways, there might be an Emacs-specific solution (and if it just tunesps-print so that the result looks nice).

What I am looking for:

  • Fancy display of the header infos
  • Non-monospaced font (even if the original mail is not HTML)
  • Nested coloring of nested levels of quotations
  • Ideally, convert and print the HTML part if present

Does something like that exist, Emacs-specific or not? Any comments or ideas are appreciated!

Public Image Ltd.
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There is https://github.com/aclements/notmuch/blob/master/emacs/notmuch-print.el though I'm not sure how useable it is.

Would be nice to print the whole thread too.

Divan Santana
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    This is a link-only answer, so it should be deleted. If you present an answer with such a link, the answer should at least summarize the info found at the link that answers the question. – Drew Apr 05 '23 at 22:38
  • The link points to the built-in notmuch print feature, which uses `muttprint` or `ps-print`. I remember that muttprint was basically not usable for me, though I do not remember why. Ps-print just prints the buffer. I actually use this feature, but it's very primitive. – Public Image Ltd. Apr 12 '23 at 15:04