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tarastar42


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This is very minor, but a little annoying, so I thought I'd throw it in.

Title: The links in my "A topic you are subscribed to has been modified" emails are misformed, so dont work.

Browser Version: FF 2.0.0.0.14,

Bug Location: Its an email thing

The Problem:

Here is a cut-and-paste of a sample email:

****

Hello <my>:

The topic "Is Bacon a Tool?" that you've subscribed to has been updated!

Click the following link to read the discussion:

http://pmog.com/forums/social-tools/topics/is-bacon-a-tool

To unsubscribe from notifications for this topic, click here:

http://pmog.com/forums/social-tools/topics/is-bacon-a-tool/unsubscribe

PMOG Team

****

What were you doing at the time?: Just readin'. The emails look like that in Outlook Express, GMail, and my Blackberry client.

Operating System: Windows XP, Blackberry

Miscellaneous: I am madly in love with this game and have become basically non-productive at my job. I assume that this is a feature, not a bug.

Boxers or Briefs: Stretch lace hipsters: http://www.freshpair.com/Warners...

by tarastar42 7 months ago
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pixielo


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Posts: 3706

How is that misinformed?
Click one to read...click the other to receive no more info...
The links in my emails work just fine...

I admit that the formatting isn't pretty, and that I would like to only receive one notice that the topic has been updated...not 12...

by pixielo 7 months ago
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tarastar42


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Um... yeah... they look absolutely fine here. But this isnt how they look in the actual emails I receive! They look like a bunch of HTML junk, and when I click them they take me to an error page. Strange, when I pasted them here, they magically turned back into nice HTML!

Sorry, I know next to nothing about HTML, but let me see if I can figure our how to post these links so they look the way I actually see them in my mail. Screenshots, I guess, would be the most sensible, if I can figure that out. Other PMOG emails I receive look just fine, like when someone wants to make my aquaintance. Just these are wonky.

by tarastar42 7 months ago
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tarastar42


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OK, here is what my emails look like when I receive them in OE6:

email bug in OE

by tarastar42 7 months ago
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tarastar42


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And if I try to click it, I get this:

email bug in browser

by tarastar42 7 months ago
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tarastar42


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In Gmail, the links are clickable, but still look strange:

email bug in gmail

I have spent way too much time on this already, so I am not going to try to figure out how to get screenshots from my Blackberry!

by tarastar42 7 months ago
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davidsev


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Don't want to double post, so I'll add to here.
This is still broken, the emails are going with a mime type of text/plain and the only html is around the links.
IMO just dump the a tags, no one likes HTML emails.

by davidsev 7 months ago
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