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So, I get forwarded an HTML e-mail message. (Hateful in itself)
And I want to print it.

Can I?

Can I fuck.

Mail.app consistently decides that it will print "1" page of it, basically
a screenshot of the first part of the message. In the end I scroll down a
bit to the section that I want, do a screen grab, and print that.


However, now I have found out how to print the message, I only hate it more.
What you do is

1: Save the raw message to an mbox file
2: Use a REAL MAILER (eg mutt) to save out the messages/rfc-822 attachment out
   as another mbox file.
3: Go to "file" on Mail.app.
   Oh fuck. There isn't "Open". Does the style guide allow this?
   Oh. It's Apple. They don't care anyway. "Do as I say, not as I do"
3a: Go to import.
    Discover that you have to import a whole goddam folder of mboxen.
    Bastards
    Make a new temporary directory. Put the 1 mbox file in there.
3b: Go back to import
4: Import that folder
5: Print the bloody message. In its entirety. As $deity intended it to look.


format fucked?
text/html?

Once upon a time e-mail just worked. What was wrong with working?

Nicholas Clark

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  • Mail.app peter (Peter da Silva) 20:58 on 02 Feb 2004
    • Re: Mail.app Matt McLeod 01:40 on 03 Feb 2004
  • Mail.app Nicholas Clark 16:45 on 29 Jul 2005
    • Re: Mail.app Nicholas Clark 17:05 on 29 Jul 2005
      • too deep to show
  • Mail.app Robert Spier 23:52 on 12 Oct 2005
    • Re: Mail.app Nicholas Clark 00:04 on 13 Oct 2005
    • Steven Smolinski 03:13 on 13 Oct 2005
    • Peter da Silva 05:58 on 13 Oct 2005
      • too deep to show

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