[Alpine-info] Broken links from some mailers

[David Forrest]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Matt Ackeret wrote:


> On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, David Forrest wrote:

>> I've had problems opening some longer web links from some (not all)

>> correspondents that are shown on two lines.  The second line is not

>> bolded and is not included when I click (actually "return") on the

>> partial link.

>

> Have you narrowed it down to it being from some people and/or from some

> mail programs?


It just seems to be from some mailers.  The one that led me to ask was 
Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5, but I wouldn't know if the writer 
broke it on purpose.


>

> Are you sure the people aren't purposefully breaking the URL into two

> lines?  Sometimes people do that.

>

> More info about how the emails were created _might_ (doubtful admittedly)

> help figure out what's causing it (and maybe figure out a solution/patch

> that could be generally available -- and yes I did see the responses already).


After seeing Eduardo Chappa's note about a patch, I found the 2.00 
snapshot in my backups and applied his patch.  That gave me the option he 
noted and it worked well although it wasn't tagged with carets.  Then I 
recompiled 2.01 from re-alpine on sourceforge and found it gave me the 
same option:  edit the URL.

Thanks guys, I guess the answer was always there and I just didn't 
exercise RTFM correctly. Sorry for the intrusion on your day.

Dave

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