Re: graphical mail reader for one-off use

[David Levine]

Paul wrote:

> david wrote:
>  > Paul wrote:
>  >
>  > > My working bash snippet (trimmed to remove some extraneous local 
> oddities).
>  >
>  > Just curious:  does mhshow(1) do want you want, assuming you don't
>  > use it to read all of your messages?
>
> I'm not sure of the context of your question.

I apologize, I should have provided that.  When I read your original message, 
my first thought was "what's missing from nmh so Paul can view a message with a 
modern graphical reader?"

To answer my own question, mhshow can be customized to use the user's preferred 
mail reader.  Ken mentioned w3m with display_link_number.  I use firefox, I 
find that its performance on a modern machine with an SSD drive is adequate.

mhshow can be coaxed to use some of your thunderbird wrapper script with a 
profile entry such as:

    mhshow-show-text/html: cp $(mhpath cur) /tmp/$(whoami)-message.eml && 
thunderbird -file /tmp/$(whoami)-message.eml

Of course, all user preference.

David