forum owner-generated subscription URLs broken (truncated) by some e-mail clients

[Graham Perrin]

In some e-mail clients:

* forum owner-generated URLs for subscription are broken (truncated).

I wonder whether failures will be more or less likely if the URL is enclosed in angle brackets.

Regards
Graham


Fail

Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0
-- truncation of last character, =

Mulberry 4.0.8
-- truncation of last character, =

SilkyMail
-- truncation beyond 80th character


Pass

Apple Mail 3.5 (930.3) on Mac OS X 10.5.6

Chandler Desktop 1.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.5.6

Microsoft Entourage 12.1.5 (081119) on Mac OS X 10.5.6

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 on Windows XP

Microsoft Outlook Web Access Basic probably served from Exchange Server 2003

Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (20081209) on Mac OS X 10.5.6

Thunderbird 3.0b1pre (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081103 Shredder/3.0b1pre) on Mac OS X 10.5.6


Notional priority if assigned within a workgroup

5 (low)


Postscript: OWA Basic pass.

[Graham Perrin]

In parallel

Nabble registration key URLs broken in SilkyMail, strange but working in Apple Mail