Now I'm using Emacs for reading email again, there's a small problem.
Long URLs are broken across lines with a backslash/newline pair. This
makes them a bit tricky to paste into Iceweasel or whatever.
un-backslashify-selection reads the selection, kills the backslashes,
and rewrites the selection. This command is bound to M5-F7, so pasting
is fairly painless. (An extension is the right answer, but that's way
more work.)