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



On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 04:10:31PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:

> 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.

Actually, the HTML generated by OL looks sane.

>      <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>

Each line here ends in "=".  The message is qp encoded.  The act of
qp-decoding the message should join a line ending in = with the
following line, removing the = character.  (The = character at the end
of a line in qp encoding works a lot like the \ character at the end of
a sh script line.)

So perhaps the best solution to view this stuff is to view the text/html
variant, rather than the text/plain variant.  Try v to see the
attachments, then hit Return on the text/html one.  If that invokes a
text-mode browser like w3m or links or lynx, then you should be able to
follow the link.

Kai