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

[David Levine]

Steven wrote:

> 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.

Right.  Does the full path to mhn.defaults shown by "man mhfixmsg" match
/local/pkg/nmh/root-nmh-1.7/etc/mhn.defaults ?  If it does, maybe run
mhfixmsg under ltrace or something similar to see exactly what file it's
trying to open.

> >> 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?

Then -maxunencoded wouldn't be necessary.  Though I'm not sure if you're
talking about outgoing or incoming messages here.

> 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?

Yes, via mhfixmsg-format-text/html.  See the mhfixmsg and mhshow man pages.

David