On Saturday, March 8 at 02:10 PM, quoth Francis Moreau:
Actually it would be better to fix the source of the problem instead of trying to find a workaround... But I don't know where these URLs get splitted at first. Perhaps you could enlight me ?
Well, the SMTP RFC specifies a recommended maximum line length of 78 characters, and a hard limit of 998. If a URL is longer than 78 characters, many email clients will split the URL.
One way that it's sometimes done, for example by Apple's email client, is as a format=flowed email with delsp=yes. What that does is allows them to indicate (with a single space at the end of the broken line) that the next line should be appended without a space separating them.
macro pager \cb "<pipe-message>tr -d ' \r\n' | urlview<enter>" The second option seems to be the best... but it has the problem that it may concatenate urls that shouldn't be concatenated (For example, imagine the sentence "Go to http://www.google.com/ and tell me what you think" - the url would become http://www.google.com/andtellmewhatyouthinkWhy in this case spaces would be deleted ?
That's what `tr -d` does: it deletes all the characters you specify. In that macro, I specified three characters: a space, a carriage return, and a newline. The reason I specified a space is because of Apple's format=flowed trick.
What I wish we could do is use mutt to decode format=flowed and quoted-printable without having it feed things to the standard mailcap program when pipe_decode is set.
Perhaps it's better to do this: 3. Pipe it through lynx to extract the urls before piping it to urlview, like so: macro pager \cb "<pipe-message>lynx --force-html --dump | urlview<enter>"Yes. It would be nice to apply this macro for html emails only. For text emails just do the usual/fast thing.Thank you for your usefull feedbacks.
Yeah... unfortunately, that macro (I've been trying it all yesterday) doesn't *quite* work on all emails. Lynx sometimes gets confused by the message headers, I think.
I just put together a perl script that would do the trick instead of lynx. It's attached.
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