Re: graphical mail reader for one-off use

[Paul Fox]

ken wrote:
 > >    $ modern-mail-reader $(mhpath cur)
 > >
 > >and have it pop up a window on the message.
 > >
 > >Is this a practical wish?
 > 
 > Well, I just tried this (I am on MacOS X):
 > 
 > % cp `mhpath cur` /tmp/foo.eml
 > % /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird -file /tmp/foo.eml
 > 
 > And ... it seemed to do what you want!  (I chose a message with embedded

Thanks Ken!  I'll be giving this a try!  (I would have "just tried it
myself", but I don't have any modern readers installed!  Small point
of pride, until now.  :-)

 > images and they were displayed correctly).  I did the copy with the filename
 > extension because MacOS X really really wants to use filename extensions
 > as the identifier for a file type, and just doing "-file `mhpath cur`"
 > didn't work; I took a guess on the ".eml" extension and it seemed to
 > be correct.  So I think this is a reasonable option.

Huh.  ".eml".  I've spent years using and part-time developing email clients
and servers, and never heard of that extension.  Good to know.

 > BTW, I do use w3m as a text-based HTML viewer and I set the option
 > "display_link_number" so I can find the link in a message and then
 > copy and paste it to a web browser, so that works for a message where
 > I just need to find one link.

Yes, we use links similarly, but sometimes the needle (i.e., which of those
links is interesting) is lost in the haystack.

paul
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