Re: x11 mail file reader

From: Andrew Reilly (andrew_at_gurney.reilly.home)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 02:04:48 GMT

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:39:19 -0700, Brent Bolin wrote:
> Any input would be great

While you're waiting for someone to add the appropriate command line
switch to kmail (might be there already, I don't use it, so I don't know),
you could run mutt in an xterm, as:

xterm -e mutt -f "$1"

where "$1" is the mbox-format archive file that your procmail script has
built. Mutt, at least, knows how to interpret mbox files.

I'm pretty sure that lots of other mailers probably do to, since that
(used to be) the standard Unix way of storing mail messages. You just
might need to find out how to tell your mailer which mailbox to use.

Maybe with an environment variable, like:

MAILBOX=/var/mail/archive/AUG03 kmail

i.e.
MAILBOX="$1" kmail

You could wrap that into a little shell script, if the krusader file
manager was unhappy about setting environment variables itself. 

-- 
Andrew

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