371763 - A URL in the mail body is sometimes not fully clickable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 344288

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[u49640]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: Version 1.5.0.9 (20061207)

I've received a mail that had the following link (in the source)

http://example.com/=20
some/other/place.php

the result was that thunderbird displayed http://example.com/ as clickable and some/other/place.php not.


so it looked like this <a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a>some/other/place.php

Thunderbird should not break the link if its sent in two lines

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Hmm, I think the url shouldn't be sent split on two lines to begin with...

Comment 2

[u49640]

maybe, but i got at least two emails with this bug..

one was sent by the apple mailer (Apple Message framework v752.3) and the other one by a proprietary mailer. 

MS Outlook displayed the links fine... 

Comment 3

[u49640]

(In reply to comment #2)

> MS Outlook displayed the links fine... 
> 

Ops... checked the wrong message in outlook before, sorry

I've tested it again with Outlook 2007 and it displayed the link as 
http://example.com/
some/other/place.php

(two lines, only the first was clickable)

but it would still be nice if thunderbird would make the whole link clickable

Comment 4

[Michael Rhodes]

This problem also happens with long URLs which are wrapped by Thunderbird when a message is displayed. This happens when a plain text message which contains a longer-than-single-line URL is displayed; maybe the URL is auto-linked after line breaks are added.

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Do you have an example of that? I don't think tb breaks long urls (at least normally). 

Autodetecting that the url continues after the line break seems wontfix to me. It seems far more likely the user typed in url and something else on the next line. The sending client should be fixed instead.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Apple Mail will break a long URL and send the message out with
  format=flowed;delsp=Yes
expecting that the lines will be rejoined before linkifying.
That's bug 344288, but as usual the patch there has sputtered out.

The general case of this problem (i.e. without f=f;delsp) is bug 5351.

Comment 7

[Michael Rhodes]

As neither of the dups seems the correct place to mention this, the broken URLs come from Outlook senders. It wouldn't surprise me if Outlook might be the source and is breaking the lines prior to sending or similar.

I've noticed that most of the time, however, URLs which are broken in TB are fine when the same email is viewed in Outlook (over IMAP and Exchange respectively).