[Users] Claws-Mail as an .eml viewer

Jeffrey Walton noloader at gmail.com
Thu Mar 16 13:12:10 UTC 2023


On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 8:46 AM <mahlamytsike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I didn't understand your original question.
>
> No problem, can tell it once again and bit more detail.
>
> > See `man claws-mail` for what's possible with Claws Mail.
>
> Ok, as I understood, Claws Mail doesn't support opening .eml files from command line ?
> $ claws-mail 'filename.eml' → does nothing but error message on claws.log file (debug enabled): 'filename.eml' not found.
>
> Sylpheed for example supports this:
> $ sylpheed 'filename.eml' → opens 'filename.eml' file in Sylpheed Message View. No error messages in sylpheed.log.

You might try using the full pathname since Claws Mail appears to return ENOENT.

    claws-mail "$HOME/filename.eml"

Jeff


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