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

[Steven Winikoff]

>Does the full path to mhn.defaults shown by "man mhfixmsg" match
>/local/pkg/nmh/root-nmh-1.7/etc/mhn.defaults ?

Yes.


>If it does, maybe run mhfixmsg under ltrace or something similar to see
>exactly what file it's trying to open.

I used the strace command Ralph suggested (strace -fe open,openat), and
that solved it.

The problem was that I had a personal mhn.defaults file, and mhfixmsg was
reading that (which I expected) but then not reading the system version
(which I didn't expect -- I would have expected the system one to be
read first unconditionally, to be supplemented and/or overridden by the
personal file).

Ironically, the personal mhn.defaults in question isn't needed and
shouldn't have been there anyway; it's an artifact of the transition
I'm going through right now, from an older, about-to-be-decommissioned
server with nmh-1.6 to my desktop machine running 1.7.

With the personal mhn.defaults file deleted mhfixmsg works as expected
using the system version.


>> >> 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'm talking about incoming messages.


>> 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.

I did read those man pages, but perhaps I'm still failing to understand
parts of them.  I do know how mhfixmsg-format-text/html specifies the
command which generates the text/plain part from the text/html part, but
I don't see how to do that and also reformat the text/html part.

     - Steven
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