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Re: SEC:UOutlook 2003 splits URLs over multiple lines when viewed in

    0n Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 03:21:43PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 

    >Hi all,
    >
    >Something that has bugged me for a long time is that when people send me 
URLs
    >from Outlook-2003, mutt sees the URL split over 2 lines
    >
    >e.g.
    >
    >    
http://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq/current_release/?parenttopic=Sys
    >    tem%20Compatibility
    >
    >If I send the same URL from mutt to myself I get the URL on a single line 
as such:
    >
    >    
http://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq/current_release/?parenttopic=System%20Compatibility
    >
    >In the raw Maildir spool file the URL is split also e.g.
    >
    >    
http://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq/current_release/?parenttopic=3DSy=
    >    s
    >    tem%20Compatibility
    >
    >So it looks like the URL gets split over a series of lines in transit.
    >
    >Does anyone know why ? And how to make this stop happening ?

Ok, so I have investigated more. I have sent the URL from both mutt and
outlook-2003 and then I have proceeded to connect to the POP service on the
Exchange server to view the messaage _before_ fetchmail fetches it. The results:

Email sent from mutt
-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~

    A single pristine URL:
    
[http://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq/current_release/?parenttopic=System%20Compatibility]

    This is how it should be.

Email sent from Outlook-2003
-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~

So this proves that outlook marks it up in HTML and does some seriosuly weird
stuff to the email when it gets sent. How the hell does an MTA such as mutt deal
with the below crap ?

     This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

     ------_=_NextPart_001_01C7F124.1170E94F
     Content-Type: text/plain;
             charset="US-ASCII"
     Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


     http://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq/current_release/?parenttopic=3DSy=
     s
     tem%20Compatibility


     ------_=_NextPart_001_01C7F124.1170E94F
     Content-Type: text/html;
             charset="US-ASCII"
     Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

     <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
     <HTML>
     <HEAD>
     <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; =
     charset=3Dus-ascii">
     <META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version =
     6.5.7652.24">
     <TITLE>URL from Outlook ...</TITLE>
     </HEAD>
     <BODY>
     <!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->
     <BR>

     <P><A =
     HREF=3D"http://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq/current_release/?parentto=
     pic=3DSystem%20Compatibility"><U><FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF" SIZE=3D2 =
     FACE=3D"Courier =
     New">http://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq/current_release/?parenttopic=
     =3DSystem%20Compatibility</FONT></U></A>
     </P>

     </BODY>
     </HTML>
     ------_=_NextPart_001_01C7F124.1170E94F--


 -aW


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