200821 - When the text of a message is followed by a colon the text is made into a link

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 183111

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[John Griffiths]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

When recieving a message that has something like

        Sales Tax:0.0
	Shipping:12.91
	Total Amount:$212.85

Tax:0.0, Shipping:12.91, and Amount:$212.85 will show up in the message
underlined and as links. When you click on the "link", Mozilla pops an Alert box
 "tax is not a registered protocol."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have View -> Message Body set as Original HTML
2. receive a message that was sent with plain text with a following colon
3. Open message
4. Click on text that shows as link.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla pops an Alert box  "tax is not a registered protocol."

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should not have interpreted these words as links.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 183111 ***

Comment 2

[esther]

verified dup and is fixed tested again with trunk build 20030422 on winxp macosx
and linux