[Alpine-info] saving index/printing to file?

[Barry Landy via Alpine-info]

On windows you can simply redirect the output, for example to a 
PDF instead of to a printer.

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025, Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info wrote:


:>On Tue, 10 Jun 2025, Matt Ackeret via Alpine-info wrote:

:>

:>> 

:>> I see that if I turn this on:

:>>      [X]  Print Index Enabled

:>> 

:>> then I can use the % print command from the INDEX screen.. and I see I

:>> can even set up multiple printers, even a custom command..

:>> 

:>> but I don't see quite exactly how to do what I want:

:>> 

:>> What I'd really like it to be able to save my current INDEX screen (e.g.

:>> selected messages) to a file..

:>> if it's some randomly generated filename in /tmp, fine..

:>> 

:>> just so I can get a specific list of messages in a file that I can then

:>> do some

:>> other things on them (e.g. pipe to some cut commands then sort then

:>> unique)

:>> to figure out some specific things from subjects of messages I save.

:>> 

:>> Can someone explain how to do that, get print to go to some filename,

:>> even if

:>> it's the SAME filename always (but preferably not)?

:>> thanks.

:>

:>Use a custom printer with the value

:>    cat > /path/to/my/printout

:>

:>This should work on unix and mac,

:>but would need changing on windows.

:>

:>Note that this file will contain the whole index of the

:>folder, not just the portion that was on the screen.

:>

:>


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