Introducing… Mailprint Deluxe

Do your eyes hurt from staring at the Cathode Ray Tube? Do you prefer to have a stack of paper instead of a terminal on your desk?


UNIX™ wizards across the globe are making the switch. Now you can print your electronic mail with unparalleled visual fidelity!


Whether you are printing out mission-critical software patches or standard electronic correspondence, Mailprint Deluxe is the ultimate power-user utility for bringing your inbox to the physical world.

Why power users pick Mailprint

It integrates flawlessly:

Mailprint is a classic UNIX™ tool that strictly adheres to the renowned UNIX™ pipe-and-filters architecture. Email goes in, georgeous PDFs come out.

Mailprint is a drop-in replacement for muttprint.

It is incredibly slim:

Why bog down your hard drive with a bloated 250MB+ TeX Live distribution? Mailprint is a highly engineered, self-contained binary under 5MiB! It is the ultimate drop-in replacement for muttprint.

It is visually stunning:

Want to see the faces of your colleagues on your printouts? Mailprint integrates with state-of-the-art profile picture sources – like picon – to display sender pictures right on the page!

It is 100% free:

Mailprint Deluxe is Free Software.

This is what it looks like!

Mailprint is well suited for git patches and electronic mail in text format:

Get started today!

To install the mailprint command line tool to $HOME/go/bin, run:

go install github.com/gnoack/mailprint/...@latest

Hook up mailprint with Mutt with the following Mutt configuration entry in .muttrc:

set print_command="mailprint | lpr"

The only runtime dependency is Fontconfig for font lookup, as well as suitable fonts for rendering.

Mailprint Deluxe: Because the Office of the Future runs on Paper