[LINK] E-mail question

[Rick Welykochy]

Rick Welykochy wrote:

> Characters like - and . are valid inside a URL and do NOT signify the end
> of the URL. My client chops the above as follows:
> 
> http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/2152AFA3-DE5C-4A92
> 
> which is arbitrarily incorrect. 

... or my own badness.

When you send this content-type:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed

then my email client sees the URLs as two liners in the text flow:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/2152AFA3-DE5C-4A92-
BE17-672C7858E854.html

My client then reassembles a complete long line, but the URL itself
ends at the '4A92'. Sigh.

After turning line wrapping OFF all your URLS that are on one line are now fine.
If the text flowing split the URL, my client does not do the right thing.

I recall turning the line wrap off in the past and suddenly many emails
(composed in HTML editors?) consisted of one long line of text sans line breaks.

Ivan, I have a feeling that you and your colleagues are already
going around in circles similar to this, trying to find a
solution that works on the majority of email clients.

Perhaps the old 80-20 rule applies? Get it working for 80 percent
of the cases. Ignore the rest!


cheers
rickw



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