[GRLUG] Printing HTML emails from the command line

[Michael Mol]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Michael Mol wrote:
>  > My grandmother has an email account, but doesn't use the computer to
>  > check it. Instead, she wants me to.  I'd like to set up a cron script
>  > to automatically POP her email, and then print it out.
>  >
>  > fetchmail is an obvious tool for grabbing the mail, but I'm at a loss
>  > for ideas on programs that can print HTML emails from the
>  > command-line.
>  >
>  > Does anyone have any suggestions?
>  >
>  >
>  sth like this might be a start.
>
>  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-June/265272.html
>
>  maybe you can install spamassassin, and then check the headers and dont
>  print any that are of suspicious nature.
>
>  or
>
>  fetchmail to procmail to lp
>
>  http://userpages.umbc.edu/~ian/procmail.html
>
>  wow, umbc, used to live right next door.  ;)

I'm not worried about spam.  It's a Gmail address, and she gets
perhaps one or two junk emails a month.

I'm handy enough with Perl et al to handle mbox; It's having something
that can render the emails without an X display that I'm worried
about.

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