204991 - when composing a new HTML email, links are generated from different strings.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 183111

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

If a new email is written, and sent as an HTML, and a section of the mail is
like foo:bar, the whole section of the mail is turned into a link.

The HTML parser seems to link that foo: indicates the start of a link in the
same way as mailto:

This occurs with any string as the prefix. (i.e blah:)

The same issue occurs when viewing a plain text email sent with a section in the
format described above.

I can't see a way to workaround this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create new email, and type foo:bar
2. Send the email to any recipient in HTML format
3. View the received email in any email client, where foo:bar is turned into <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="foo:bar">foo:bar</a> in the source.

Actual Results:  
The text was displayed as a link, despite not being a valid format for a link.

Expected Results:  
The text should have been identified as not being a valid link, and have been
displayed as text.

Comment 1

[Benedikt Kantus]

Fixed in 1.4a. Please use a recent nightly build when trying to reproduce bugs.

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

Comment 2

[Vedran Miletic]

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