[Tickets #4359] URL encoding bug with mailto-style links

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=4359
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 Ticket             | 4359
 Updated By         | ekendall at brandeis.edu
 Summary            | URL encoding bug with mailto-style links
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | 4.1.3
 Type               | Bug
 State              | Feedback
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Owners             | 
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ekendall at brandeis.edu (2006-08-30 04:50) wrote:

I thought that the place I put this /was/ when actually processing the args
from a mailto URL. And you have to urldecode the subject line at some
point, or else mailto links with spaces in the subject line won't work.
I'd say that's worse that potentially mangling subjects that accidentally
have what looks like url encoding in them, especially when many times the
percent will itself be encoded.

All the other mail programs I've tried (Thunderbird, OE, Mail.app) all
parse "foo at bar.com?subject=baz%20quux" the way I expect, so I do think
this is a bug. If you have a suggestion for a better place to fix it, I'd
be happy to submit an updated patch.