[imp] Long URLs become broken in IMP webmail client when sent using a plain text editor

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Thu May 21 03:57:38 UTC 2009


Quoting Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu>:

> On Wed, 20 May 2009, Matthew Maddox wrote:
>
>> I have installed Horde 3.2.2, IMP H3 (4.2), Turba H3 (2.2.1), Ingo H3
>> (1.2.1), Mimp H3 (1.1) installed on a Solaris 10 server that is running PHP
>> 5.2.5, Apache 2.2.8 and MySQL 5.0.51a.  When emails containing long URLs are
>> composed in a plain text client and read in the IMP 4.2 webmail client, long
>> URLs are broken.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> http://www.walmart.com/browse/Bedding-Decor/_/N-8rzqZaq90ZaqceZ1yzu1hy/Ne-aq
>> d9?ic=48_0&ref=125863.409526+500733.4292820502&tab_value=4116_All&catNavId=5
>> 24144
>>
>> becomes
>>
>> http://www.walmart.com/browse/Bedding-Decor/_/N-8rzqZaq90ZaqceZ1yzu1hy/Ne-aq
>> d9?ic=48_0&ref=125863.409526+500733.4292820502&tab_value=4116_All&catNavId=5
>> 24144
>>
>> Does anyone know a work around or fix?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matthew
>
> Those 2 lines look identical when I view them in IMP, or in Alpine (which
> I'm using to compose my reply now).  Many email clients will wrap lines at
> 72 characters.  I agree that the link is broken in IMP though.

Works perfectly fine for me (in both IMP 4 and 5).  Sending a long URL  
using IMP and then viewing in IMP correctly links the entire URL.   
Obviously, if your screen is small, *display* might wrap (this is a  
browser-dependent thing), but it is a non-breaking wrap.

michael

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