Well I guess that this is an authoritative answer, although I don't really understand it. Doeas anyone have any suggestions on how to do this with a minimum of effort? What I have in mind is a program (in perl, natch) that would scan through a mail spool file, stop at every potential e-mail address that isn't in a From: header (since those are already handled OK), and accept a y/n response before prepending a mailto: ID. Bill Silvert Earl Hood wrote: >Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:29:42 -0700 >From: Earl Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: mailto: links > >On August 18, 1998 at 16:24, Bill Silvert wrote: > >> I'm a bit of a novice, and couldn't find the answer in the documentation, >> so forgive my ignorance. I would like to convert email addresses in the >> text into mailto: url's the way it is done in the headers, but it >> appears that although MHonArc does it fine in the header, I couldn't >> find a way to have it parse the message other than manually going in and >> adding mailto: before each address. Is there an argument or resource >> that can be used to force this behaviour? > >No. The problem is that it would conflict with message-id detection >(syntactically, there is no difference between message-ids and mail >addresses). > > --ewh -- Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Section, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2, Tel. (902)426-1577 http://www.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/mesd/he/staff/silvert/silvert.html
