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stevewa
I just came across a weird issue. I use asp scripts to send email newsletters
out for clients websites (not spam) and they work great in Outlook Express,
but in Outlook 2003 I just started to have a weird issue...
I had a link at the top that said
If this message is garbled, please copy and paste this link into your web
browser: http://www.website.com/Newsletters/Newsletter.Email.Public.asp?ID=7
In outlook express the link works perfectly.
but in Outlook 2003 it treats the link as if it is an attachment, because
when you click on it, it opens a dialog box with title "Opening Mail
Attachment" and it reads "You should only open attachments from a trustworthy
source". then the name of the attachment is "ATT00082.jpg" and when you open
the attachment, it is one of the graphic images embedded in the email,
closest to the link.
So I thought maybe a tag wasn't closing properly and it was thinking the
link was an image, but the email was displaying properly. So through about 20
trial and errors of changing the link and code attributes, it turns out that
this is what happens:
If I remove the ?ID=7 from the end of the href of the link, then it treats
it as a normal link and opens a web page. But I need the ID=7 to tell the
script which newsletter to open. So I change my script to use the letter N
instead of ID, as in ?N=7, instead of ?ID=7, and the link works perfectly,
opening a browser window instead of try to open an attachment inside Outlook
2003.
Is there some secret code inside Outlook 2003 that if it sees a link that
has the ?ID= in it, it treats it as a security risk and forces it to open the
link as an attachment? Weird....
out for clients websites (not spam) and they work great in Outlook Express,
but in Outlook 2003 I just started to have a weird issue...
I had a link at the top that said
If this message is garbled, please copy and paste this link into your web
browser: http://www.website.com/Newsletters/Newsletter.Email.Public.asp?ID=7
In outlook express the link works perfectly.
but in Outlook 2003 it treats the link as if it is an attachment, because
when you click on it, it opens a dialog box with title "Opening Mail
Attachment" and it reads "You should only open attachments from a trustworthy
source". then the name of the attachment is "ATT00082.jpg" and when you open
the attachment, it is one of the graphic images embedded in the email,
closest to the link.
So I thought maybe a tag wasn't closing properly and it was thinking the
link was an image, but the email was displaying properly. So through about 20
trial and errors of changing the link and code attributes, it turns out that
this is what happens:
If I remove the ?ID=7 from the end of the href of the link, then it treats
it as a normal link and opens a web page. But I need the ID=7 to tell the
script which newsletter to open. So I change my script to use the letter N
instead of ID, as in ?N=7, instead of ?ID=7, and the link works perfectly,
opening a browser window instead of try to open an attachment inside Outlook
2003.
Is there some secret code inside Outlook 2003 that if it sees a link that
has the ?ID= in it, it treats it as a security risk and forces it to open the
link as an attachment? Weird....