Printing email using mutt

[Subba Rao]

On  0, Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, if mutt knows how to print at all, it will probably pipe things to the
> 'lpr' or 'lp' commands.  If it does that, then there is nothing that you need
> to do, other than print since 'lpr' will talk to cups.
> 
> I've never used mutt, so I can't tell you how to do it.
> 
> --- Subba Rao <subba9 at cablespeed.com> wrote:
> > 
> > When I want to print some email, I would usually save it to a file and then
> > open it from the AbiWord or OpenOffice and then print it to the CUPS server.
> > 
> > Is there anyway I can print from Mutt itself to the CUPS server?
> > 

Thank you for replying.  The "print_command" options was set to:

set print_cmd="echo printing!"

So when I tried to hit the 'p' key to print nothing would happen.  Now I
changed that to:

set print_cmd="lpr"

Now I can print the email directly from mutt.

Thank you once again.

-- 
Subba Rao
subba9 at cablespeed.com
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