On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 11:12:12PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 10:51:25PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > > Apparently, something was wrapping lines to > > about 75 characters, and putting an equals sign at the end of every line > > which had been wrapped. > > This is "quoted-printable" encoding. You need to use a properly decoded > version of the file, rather than the raw text.[1] > > > As a solution, I took that email from my mutt mail file and stripped out > > all the headers and non-HTML content. Then I fed that to my browser. > > If you received a correctly formatted email, it should contain one or more > parts, each of which is identified by a MIME Content-Type. Pressing 'v' > while reading the message takes you to a page which shows you the parts > in a tree form. > > Use the arrow keys to select the part you want to save (in this case, the > text/html one), and then save it to a file. I use "foo.html" usually, > and just overwrite foo.html every time. > > Have your browser load THAT file. > > [1] The SMTP standard requires all transmitted lines to be 1000 characters > or less, and to contain only 7-bit ASCII characters. Therefore, any > content which doesn't conform to these restrictions has to be encoded. > The two choices for encoding are quoted-printable, and base64. > Quoted-printable is nearly human-readable, and is more efficient if > there are relatively few 8-bit characters or long lines, so it's > a common choice. Some MUAs will use q-p even on files that don't > *strictly* need it, just in case. >
This is an excellent reply, and explains the situation entirely. I tried your method, and it worked. Thanks. Of course, it doesn't fix the retarded way Mutt handles links. For those familiar with Mutt, it allows you to view the file with numbers referring to each link. Then you get a screen with just the numbered links. Here's the fun part: if the link you want is, say, number 4, when you get to the screen with only numbered links, the number 4 link is often some other link. You have to push each link around the one you want to the browser until you find the one you want. It's a pain. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster
