Unwanted link being created

Bel001

posted Oct 7 '09 at 11:09 am

That's great, will do! Thanks very much for your help.

That's great, will do!&nbsp; Thanks very much for your help.

Bel001

posted Oct 5 '09 at 1:33 pm

Hi,

Hopefully a basic question, but couldn't find answer in help index or anywhere else on forums... I am receiving incoming mail with the word 'profile' in, and each time, it appears: profile with file as a hyperlink to a new mail message with 'file' in the To: field.

How can I stop this happening, please? I wouldn't be bothered, except that the e-mail contains other (valid) links, I have to forward it to someone else and it looks strange/is causing some confusion!

Thanks,

Victoria

Hi, Hopefully a basic question, but couldn't find answer in help index or anywhere else on forums...&nbsp; I am receiving incoming mail with the word 'profile' in, and each time, it appears: profile with file as a hyperlink to a new mail message with 'file' in the To: field. &nbsp;How can I stop this happening, please?&nbsp; I wouldn't be bothered, except that the e-mail contains other (valid) links, I have to forward it to someone else and it looks strange/is causing some confusion! &nbsp;Thanks, Victoria

Sharkfin

posted Oct 5 '09 at 8:18 pm

You will be aware of the fact that website addresses should begin with "http://". Similarly, links that open an e-mail message begin with "mailto:". There is also a type of link that begins with "file://" which is used to jump to documents on the local computer.

I can only presume that it is something related to that. Pegasus displays links in plaintext messages using its own method of scanning through the message for sequences of characters that appear to be links. I wonder if the message you have just happens to look like it might be a link and pegasus is displaying it a such. Strange that the link opens a new message though.

Can you confirm whether the problem message is HTML or plaintext? Perhaps you could post the relevant part of the raw message?

You will be aware of the fact that website addresses should begin with "http://". Similarly, links that open an e-mail message begin with "mailto:". There is also a type of link that begins with "file://" which is used to jump to documents on the local computer.I can only presume that it is something related to that. Pegasus displays links in plaintext messages using its own method of scanning through the message for sequences of characters that appear to be links. I wonder if the message you have just happens to look like it might be a link and pegasus is displaying it a such. Strange that the link opens a new message though.Can you confirm whether the problem message is HTML or plaintext? Perhaps you could post the relevant part of the raw message?

Bel001

posted Oct 6 '09 at 1:40 pm

Thanks for your reply. I think it's plaintext. It displays:

To complete your Self-Perception pro

file:

and on hover, the word 'file' appears in the status bar (bottom left) whereas raw view shows:

To complete your Self-Perception profile:

with no additional info/reference/hyperlink anywhere.

Details of message in raw view are:

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000

Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message

Importance: normal

Priority: normal

X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.4325

X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Oct 2009 12:12:50.0472 (UTC) FILETIME=[A9485280:01CA4359]

Content-Length: 2366

This problem doesn't seem to occur when I forward to other mail clients, so maybe not a problem... Strange, though!

Thanks for your reply.&nbsp;&nbsp;I think it's plaintext.&nbsp; It displays:&nbsp; To complete your Self-Perception profile: and on hover, the word 'file' appears in the status bar (bottom left) whereas raw view shows: To complete your Self-Perception profile: &nbsp;with no additional info/reference/hyperlink anywhere. Details of message in raw view are: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.4325 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Oct 2009 12:12:50.0472 (UTC) FILETIME=[A9485280:01CA4359] Content-Length: 2366 This problem doesn't seem to occur when I forward to other mail clients, so maybe not a problem...&nbsp; Strange, though! &nbsp;

Sharkfin

posted Oct 6 '09 at 11:39 pm

When this forum e-mailed me a copy of your reply (in plaintext), I saw the exact issue you complain of. This was because the string "file:" occurs in the message and Pegasus is, as I had guessed, interpreting that as the beginning of a link.

If you simply put a space before the colon, this should stop.

When this forum e-mailed me a copy of your reply (in plaintext), I saw the exact issue you complain of. This was because the string "file:" occurs in the message and Pegasus is, as I had guessed, interpreting that as the beginning of a link.If you simply put a space before the colon, this should stop.

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