282146 - Advertisement management links in mail do not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 230377

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Jan Vlug]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: 

Marktplaats.nl sends mail that contain URLs to manage the advertisements. The
URLs in this mail do not work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Place an advertisement on www.marktplaats.nl
2. You get a confirmation mail (Advertentie bevestigen)
3. Click the URL in the mail (this works).
4. Now you will receive another mail (Bevestiging van uw geplaatste advertentie).
5. This mail contains 4 URLs. They are broken, but even if they are put
together, they still do not work.

Actual Results:  
The URLs do not work.

Expected Results:  
There should be 4 complete URLs in the mail that work.

I am not sure if this is a Thunderbird, or a www.marktplaats.nl problem.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Please save the message with the problem URLs as a .EML file and attach it to 
this bug using the Create New Attachment link above.

Comment 2

[Jan Vlug]

Attachment: Example of an mail with faulty links

Created an attachment with an example mail.
Feel free to test the links.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Hmm.  There is, arguably, a problem with the message: it's headers contain
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable
but does not contain a Content-Type header.  For some reason, without that 
header, Mozilla & TB do not apply the quoted-printable decoding, so the URLs 
that ought to appear on a single line instead appear as:

http://www.marktplaats.nl/bewerken1.php3?g=3Dsoftware&u=3Ddiversen&code=3D=
d0886e3234abe195e15f55fab7f3ceb2

with the q-p encodings ("=3D" and the trailing "=" on the first line) left in 
place.

This shouldn't actually be a problem, because a missing Content-Type is supposed 
to be handled as "text/plain" -- and if I tweak your message to add
  Content-Type: text/plain
then it displays correctly.

The workaround for this particular instance: paste the two parts together after 
removing the trailing "=" from the first line; and change all the "=3D" to just 
"=".

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230377 ***