Re: [Nmh-workers] why does mhfixmsg dislike long text lines?

[David Levine]

Steven wrote:

> The resulting file has these headers:
>
>    Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
>    Content-Disposition: inline
>    Content-Type: text/html;
>            charset="UTF-8"
>    MIME-Version: 1.0 
>
> So if I correctly understand what I'm learning from you and Ken, this
> should be compliant.

With RFC 2045, yes, but maybe not with the line length limitations of RFC 5322 
§2.1.1.

> I tried it just now, and the (expected) result was
>
>    mhfixmsg: Don't know how to convert /home/smw/Mail/reformatted/17352,
>              there is no mhfixmsg-format-text/html profile entry
>
> ...which makes sense because I don't know what to put in that profile entry.

Is there a mhfixmsg-format-text/html line in your mhn.defaults?  There should 
be, if you installed nmh with "make install" and one of w3m, lynx, or elinks 
was already present and on your PATH.

> >Uh, that's a different issue.  -maxunencoded 900 can cause creation of
> >messages with lines that long, and they wouldn't comply with RFC 5322.
>
> I thought Ken said the RFC 5322 limit was 998.  But...

Right.  He also noted that he's had problems with insertion of '!' in long 
lines of HTML.

David