1684345 - links are removed from invitations

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1666296

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Bernd Wolff]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0

Steps to reproduce:

I receive an invitation to a Teams meeting

Actual results:

In Thunderbird, the lnk to join the meeting is removed, so there is no way to join by clicking on "Join the meeting". A "mailto"-link in the invitation is preserved.

The email client on my phone shows that the invitation definitely contains the link, and if I copy this and send it to myself as an email it works.

The sender is probably using Outlook, the email contains the links and an ICS attachment - due to the limited ctions available on a phone I cannot check if maybe this does not contain any links and is used as the sole data source by TB

Expected results:

Have the "Join the meeting" text be a working hyperlink

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

Is there any way to provide a public (!) testcase of such an email? (Will require obfuscating data.)

Comment 2

[Bernd Wolff]

This is tricky... the Outlook invites come from company accounts, which I prefer not to use for tests.
When I invite my secondary email account from my private Teams installation - via Google calendar or by copying the invitation into an email, all links work.

But I think I see the problem, and it is most likely Microsoft:

I did a slightly deeper dive and ran the text/calendar portion of thr Outlook invitation through a base64 decoder. The meeting links do not start with "<a href=https...." but immediately with "<https:....". The email link that shows up correctly in TB is correctly prefixed with "mailto:"

In the Google invitation, the links follow the usual rule (<a href=) and are displayed properly.

So this is not a defect but turns into a feature request, I guess - as there is little chance of convinving MS to change their format, can we enable Thunderbird to <http(s)..:> as a link?

(And how do I file a request?)