[Users] Claws-Mail as an .eml viewer

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 9:23 AM <mahlamytsike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 09:12:10 -0400
> Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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"
> >
> I've already tried that too. The result is the same.

That sounds like a UI bug. Claws mail should return ENOSYS or similar,
and not ENOENT.

The missing functionality sounds like a feature request.

The Claws Mail bugzilla is located at
https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/ .

Jeff