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

[Steven Winikoff]

>>    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?

Yes:

   # grep mhfixmsg-format-text/html /local/pkg/nmh/root-nmh-1.7/etc/mhn.defaults
   mhfixmsg-format-text/html: charset=%{charset}; /usr/bin/lynx -child -dump 
-force_html ${charset:+--assume_charset} ${charset:+"$charset"} %F | expand | 
sed -e 's/^   //' -e 's/  *$//'

Of course I can just copy this entry into my .mh_profile, and I'll try that
tomorrow when I have some time -- but it sounds like you're suggesting that
the entry in /local/pkg/nmh/root-nmh-1.7/etc/mhn.defaults should be picked
up directory from there, and that isn't happening.


>> 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.

What about the idea of reformatting the text/html part to reduce the line
width?  I've been playing with tidy (AKA html-tidy), and it's capable of
transforming the HTML message I received last week from a single line of
42187 characters into a version with 1896 lines with a maximum line width
of 138.

Is there a way to get mhfixmsg to decode the base64 and then run it through
tidy with a given set of command-line options?

     - Steven
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