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Re: URLs screwed in the mail body



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On Sunday, March  9 at 07:37 PM, quoth Francis Moreau:
>OK, I though more about it and I think the situation is quite bad ;)
>
>Here are the different use cases I can think of:

You forget, labeling is part of the issue. There's a difference 
between how the URL should be handled based on whether the message has 
been labeled as format=flowed or not, and whether its been labeled as 
delsp=yes or not. All your use-cases here are just for plain-text.

>Probably the best we could do is to write a script with 2 modes:
>normal and agressive.
>
>The normal mode would fix the easiest and common case
>whereas the agressive mode would fix the special cases but
>break the common case. We could bind each mode to different
>shortcuts.
>
>What do you think ?

For handling *broken* emails (such as the one you were sent), I think 
that you're right, and that's the best you can do. If the email was 
correctly encoded, I think it becomes much easier to "do the right 
thing".

~Kyle
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