I made a simple tool some time ago to extract the content of an email, and publish it to a gopher hole.
To put it simply, the subject is used as the title, and the body is put into the log entry (optionnaly passed through a command, like fmt(1) for example.
The original email sender is verified, to prevent spams from cluttering your phlog. It might not be the most secure method, but that works for me tm.
You can see it in action here:
- gopher://phlog.z3bra.org
- gopher://g.nixers.net/7/~anon/twtxt.dcgi
Oh right, then it’s probably just the link format which is misinterpreted by your client.
mailtolinks don’t include the usual “://”, which might prevent them from opening correctly on some clients.