Re: FN-FORUM: Another question regarding email.

date posted 13th February 2008 10:01

On 13/02/2008 11:07, Mark Pawelek wrote:
> I have an emailing program which sends daily emails to about 1500 clients.
> This email contains several links.
>
> A link url might look like this.
>
> http://www.mysite.com/myfolder/mypage.aspx?reportID=999
>
> The problem is that some clients (more than one) have got this instead:
>
> http://www.mysite.com/myfolder/mypag! e.aspx?reportID=999
>
> How can that happen? Did the message get corrupted on the internet just
> prior to delivery to their mailbox?
>

At a guess 2 things might have happened.

1. The mail wasn't encoded correctly.

2. Some virus/firewall/something or other decided to split the url to
stop them from clicking on it (i've not heard of this happening, but you
never know, people do have strange software installed - probably
installed from a "your computer is insecure, install our software to
protect you" type banner

oh and 3. They are using some strange mail package, probably outlook ;)

Martin