1288: typed-in URL in email appears different based on end user's email client

yan***@gmai***** (Google Code) (Is this you? Claim this profile.)
Aug. 27, 2009
What version are you running?
Whichever version is in use today @VMware

Problem is observed in reviewboard emails viewed in ms entourage 

I added a URL to my development server to the Testing Done portion of my
review and published my review.  The URL displayed on the web UI and in the
email that I received (Outlook) was correct, but my teammate, (Mac user)
uses entourage to read his email got an incorrect link.  

My email comes through as 
Content-Type: text/html; 
but his has 
Content-Type: text/html;

Christian confirmed that our current version of RB is sending in plaintext,
so this means something downstream is changing it into an html email

(The url that broke uses & instead of & or ; as the key value pair
delimiter, which, yeah yeah yeah, I know is incorrect, but as a result of
the htmlization of the email, it's munging key1=value1&key2=value2 into
key1=value1=value2) (which is exactly the reason that &'s are incorrect as
delimiters)

This appears to be a bug in one of:
ms entourage
Exchange 
or maybe ActiveSync

In case you've had any reports of 'links in emails don't work' that you
couldn't figure out, it might be due to this issue.  

I'm filing this here for informational purposes only, I'm not asking for
anything to be done about it.
david
#1 david
Exchange works fine--the links in my outlook are correct. I think it's probably
Entourage.

We will have HTML email support in the next major release, which should hopefully
work around this issue.
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