Entourage 2008 SP1 and Broken Hyperlinks

[Kevin Nicholls]

After installing SP1, I noticed that Entourage tries to outsmart links
that I receive in e-mail.

Specifically, I'll get links like:

http://www.site.com/app.dll?View&I=12345&T=1

Which Entourage will parse as:

http://www.site.com/app.dll?View=12345=1

Looking at the message source (and confirming in OWA), the links I'm
getting are correct, and Entourage is just trying to be smarter than it
is.

Is there any way to change this?

 

[Diane Ross]

Not that I'm aware of. I'll forward this as bug. I also suggest you send
feedback.

Send feedback to Microsoft .

When working in Office, you can use the ³Send Feedback² option under the
Help menu in all of the Office applications or visit
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/suggestions.mspx>

 

[Kevin Nicholls]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I've sent this as feedback, but I'll keep an eye on this thread, in
case someone comes up with something.

Since I get messages like the one I described several times a day, I'd
like to get some sort of workaround -- even if it means tinkering with
a .plist -- so I don't have to live in OWA all day long.

 

[Diane Ross]

Feedback from developer:

Yes, we are aware of this issue and are currently investigating.

 

[jon61575]

We've been having the same problem. Hyperlinks with "&" and parameters don't display or link correctly. Its very frustrating because we rely on email alerts with hyper links all day long.

 

[jon61575]

I had to downgrade to the first version (12.0.0) of Office 2008 for Mac to get the links sort of working. Entourage 12.0.0 displays the broken link first and then the correct link in <> next to it. At least I'm able to use links until they release a fix.

 

[Scott Boettcher]

Sometimes in Entourage, you can Command-click a link and it will work when
just clicking doesn't.

Scott

 

[Diane Ross]

I had to downgrade to the first version (12.0.0) of Office 2008 for Mac to get
the links sort of working. Entourage 12.0.0 displays the broken link first and
then the correct link in <> next to it. At least I'm able to use links until
they release a fix.

Check the Source of a message that shows incorrectly. Message --> Source in
the Menu bar. You should be able to get the entire URL in the Source.