MANIFEST                 |  1 +
 lib/PublicInbox/Reply.pm | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/PublicInbox/View.pm  | 47 ++---------------------------------------------
 t/view.t                 |  2 +-

diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 3bfd9a4080b9847900b15a4de40088204905c44b..0475cdd62ce77612c316f5c9f1d6094131ee17f9 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ lib/PublicInbox/NewsWWW.pm
 lib/PublicInbox/ParentPipe.pm
 lib/PublicInbox/ProcessPipe.pm
 lib/PublicInbox/Qspawn.pm
+lib/PublicInbox/Reply.pm
 lib/PublicInbox/SaPlugin/ListMirror.pm
 lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm
 lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Reply.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Reply.pm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73a4df119bdabe9dcb55fa5bb250df911cab8b66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Reply.pm
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2014-2017 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
+# License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
+package PublicInbox::Reply;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use URI::Escape qw/uri_escape_utf8/;
+use PublicInbox::Hval qw/ascii_html/;
+use PublicInbox::Address;
+use PublicInbox::MID qw/mid_clean mid_escape/;
+
+sub squote_maybe ($) {
+	my ($val) = @_;
+	if ($val =~ m{([^\w@\./,\%\+\-])}) {
+		$val =~ s/(['!])/'\\$1'/g; # '!' for csh
+		return "'$val'";
+	}
+	$val;
+}
+
+sub mailto_arg_link {
+	my ($hdr) = @_;
+	my %cc; # everyone else
+	my $to; # this is the From address
+
+	foreach my $h (qw(From To Cc)) {
+		my $v = $hdr->header($h);
+		defined($v) && ($v ne '') or next;
+		my @addrs = PublicInbox::Address::emails($v);
+		foreach my $address (@addrs) {
+			my $dst = lc($address);
+			$cc{$dst} ||= $address;
+			$to ||= $dst;
+		}
+	}
+	my @arg;
+
+	my $subj = $hdr->header('Subject') || '';
+	$subj = "Re: $subj" unless $subj =~ /\bRe:/i;
+	my $mid = $hdr->header_raw('Message-ID');
+	push @arg, '--in-reply-to='.squote_maybe(mid_clean($mid));
+	my $irt = mid_escape($mid);
+	delete $cc{$to};
+	push @arg, "--to=$to";
+	$to = uri_escape_utf8($to);
+	$subj = uri_escape_utf8($subj);
+	my @cc = sort values %cc;
+	push(@arg, map { "--cc=$_" } @cc);
+	my $cc = uri_escape_utf8(join(',', @cc));
+	my $href = "mailto:$to?In-Reply-To=$irt&Cc=${cc}&Subject=$subj";
+
+	(\@arg, ascii_html($href));
+}
+
+1;
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index 9ef4712f313cc0bf59f21cbbf38fcbb8beeb0bac..0d85581dfd966eed4a0e4e0db2f2817c2f0e1713 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ # See Documentation/design_www.txt for this.
 package PublicInbox::View;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-use URI::Escape qw/uri_escape_utf8/;
 use Date::Parse qw/str2time/;
 use PublicInbox::Hval qw/ascii_html/;
 use PublicInbox::Linkify;
@@ -14,6 +13,7 @@ use PublicInbox::MID qw/mid_clean id_compress mid_mime mid_escape/;
 use PublicInbox::MsgIter;
 use PublicInbox::Address;
 use PublicInbox::WwwStream;
+use PublicInbox::Reply;
 require POSIX;
 
 use constant INDENT => '  ';
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ 		$url = PublicInbox::Hval::prurl($ctx->{env}, $url);
 		$info = qq(\n  List information: <a\nhref="$url">$url</a>\n);
 	}
 
-	my ($arg, $link) = mailto_arg_link($hdr);
+	my ($arg, $link) = PublicInbox::Reply::mailto_arg_link($hdr);
 	push @$arg, '/path/to/YOUR_REPLY';
 	$arg = ascii_html(join(" \\\n    ", '', @$arg));
 	<<EOF
@@ -616,49 +616,6 @@ 			$rv .= 'References: '. join("\n\t", @refs) . "\n";
 		}
 	}
 	$rv;
-}
-
-sub squote_maybe ($) {
-	my ($val) = @_;
-	if ($val =~ m{([^\w@\./,\%\+\-])}) {
-		$val =~ s/(['!])/'\\$1'/g; # '!' for csh
-		return "'$val'";
-	}
-	$val;
-}
-
-sub mailto_arg_link {
-	my ($hdr) = @_;
-	my %cc; # everyone else
-	my $to; # this is the From address
-
-	foreach my $h (qw(From To Cc)) {
-		my $v = $hdr->header($h);
-		defined($v) && ($v ne '') or next;
-		my @addrs = PublicInbox::Address::emails($v);
-		foreach my $address (@addrs) {
-			my $dst = lc($address);
-			$cc{$dst} ||= $address;
-			$to ||= $dst;
-		}
-	}
-	my @arg;
-
-	my $subj = $hdr->header('Subject') || '';
-	$subj = "Re: $subj" unless $subj =~ /\bRe:/i;
-	my $mid = $hdr->header_raw('Message-ID');
-	push @arg, '--in-reply-to='.squote_maybe(mid_clean($mid));
-	my $irt = mid_escape($mid);
-	delete $cc{$to};
-	push @arg, "--to=$to";
-	$to = uri_escape_utf8($to);
-	$subj = uri_escape_utf8($subj);
-	my @cc = sort values %cc;
-	push(@arg, map { "--cc=$_" } @cc);
-	my $cc = uri_escape_utf8(join(',', @cc));
-	my $href = "mailto:$to?In-Reply-To=$irt&Cc=${cc}&Subject=$subj";
-
-	(\@arg, ascii_html($href));
 }
 
 sub html_footer {
diff --git a/t/view.t b/t/view.t
index 2181b5efb34184a1a97bcfae8fa08d9ca0dff431..abd00018e73381f84f4573a342502d24cfbce5a7 100644
--- a/t/view.t
+++ b/t/view.t
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ );
 while (@q) {
 	my $input = shift @q;
 	my $expect = shift @q;
-	my $res = PublicInbox::View::squote_maybe($input);
+	my $res = PublicInbox::Reply::squote_maybe($input);
 	is($res, $expect, "quote $input => $res");
 }