Outlook 2007 Plain Text Hyperlinks disappear

[maurice.thaler]

This is a very repeatable bug:

Create an email using plain text with something like this:

Line of boring text.
http://www.microsoft.com
Line of boring text.
http://www.microsoft.com
Line of boring text.
http://www.microsoft.com

copy that and repeat it until you have about 100K or so.
Near the bottom of the message, the hyperlinks stop underlining and
are not clickable.

How does one post this bug directly to Microsoft?

 

[Dan]

When you get an answer to "How does one post this bug directly to Microsoft?"
can you make sure it gets posted up here? I need to know the answer to that
one as well not so easy to figure out how to tell MS that something is
wrong.

 

[Brian Tillman]

This is a very repeatable bug:

Create an email using plain text with something like this:

Line of boring text.
http://www.microsoft.com
Line of boring text.
http://www.microsoft.com
Line of boring text.
http://www.microsoft.com

copy that and repeat it until you have about 100K or so.
Near the bottom of the message, the hyperlinks stop underlining and
are not clickable.

Technically, plain text messages can't contain hyperlinks. Outlook is
simply being nice you to and scanning your message for strings that appear
to be URLs and making them active. However, in my experience, Outlook (even
before 2007) has had problems with the scanning algorithm for very large
messages or for messages containing many strings that appear to be URLs.
Frankly, I wouldn't expect Plain Text messages to contain any active
content, but when you send the message, if the receiving mail client is nice
enough, it too may scan the text and turn strings that appear to be URLs
into hyperlinks.

 

[maurice.thaler]

Technically, plain text messages can't contain hyperlinks. Outlook is
simply being nice you to and scanning your message for strings that appear
to be URLs and making them active. However, in my experience, Outlook (even
before 2007) has had problems with the scanning algorithm for very large
messages or for messages containing many strings that appear to be URLs.
Frankly, I wouldn't expect Plain Text messages to contain any active
content, but when you send the message, if the receiving mail client is nice
enough, it too may scan the text and turn strings that appear to be URLs
into hyperlinks.

Brian,
All I know is that I get a daily email that worked JUST FINE in
Outlook 2003 and it is broken in Outlook 2007. I have checked with
others who receive the same email and they have confirmed it.
To me, this is a functionality issue, not a matter of Outlook being
"nice".
Hell, it even works in Outlook Express.
If it worked in Outlook 2003 and is broken in Outlook 2007, it is a
bug.

-Maurice

 

[maurice.thaler]

Hello Maurice,
Thanks for taking the time to give your feedback.

It was not clear to me what format the message is that you are creating
(i.e. plain text; html or rich text). I tired to reproduce this by copying
and pasting your text in a new message until I reached well over 100K and am
not seeing the same behavior with a html or rich text formatted message.
With a plan text formatted message I do not see any of the links being
highlighted unless they are typed in directly (by design).

If you have any other information that would assist us in reproducing the
issue that you are seeing I would appreciate it if you could please send it
to this thread.

Thanks

--
Benjamin Gay [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

This is a very repeatable bug:

Create an email using plain text with something like this:

Line of boring text.
http://www.microsoft.com
Line of boring text.
http://www.microsoft.com
Line of boring text.
http://www.microsoft.com

copy that and repeat it until you have about 100K or so.
Near the bottom of the message, the hyperlinks stop underlining and
are not clickable.

How does one post this bug directly to Microsoft?

Benjamin,
I am talking about a PLAIN TEXT message.
As I said in my original message, I get a mailing from a group daily.
The message is long and in plain text.
There are a number of links.
3/4 through the message (typically) the hyperlinks stop working.

I am sending you an example. Assuming you are using Outlook 2007, you
should see it.
Thanks,
Maurice

 

[maurice.thaler]

Benjamin,
I am talking about a PLAIN TEXT message.
As I said in my original message, I get a mailing from a group daily.
The message is long and in plain text.
There are a number of links.
3/4 through the message (typically) the hyperlinks stop working.

I am sending you an example. Assuming you are using Outlook 2007, you
should see it.
Thanks,
Maurice

Oops, the mail bounced from what your profile displayed as your email
address.
If you would like to ping me, I will send you a sample email
demonstrating the bug.