URLs and mailto links BLOCKED in received messages

[tdog]

Hello,
We're running Outlook 2003 clients and recently a message was received
containing several Web site URLs as well as mailto links for internal
addresses. A mouseover on each link revealed 3-4 lines of text (in sequence,
"blocked:BLOCKED:blocked:<actual URL>" "blocked:blocked: <URL>" "blocked:
<URL>" and finally just the URL by itself).

I understand from http://www.slipstick.com/mail1/blocked.htm why the URLs
were blocked (they were copied and pasted from another message), but why the
mailto links? We can reproduce the URL blocks easily but not the mailto
blocks. Does anyone know why this might be taking place? Thanks!

cheers /td

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Were the mailto's also copied?

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[tdog]

Diane,

They were pasted in. In testing, we tried copy-pasting mailto links from
other messages but were unable to get them to show as BLOCKED when the
message was received. I should have stated that in my initial post.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

I can't reliably repro it with mailto or http's... FWIW, BLOCKED:: should
show up in the source code as soon as you paste it in.

(Personally, I think it's dumb and doesn't improve security - and firefox
ignores the prefix.)

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[tdog]

Concur! When doing http URLs, were you copying from a received message and
pasting into a new one? We have been able to regularly reproduce it doing it
that way.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Yes... but I can only repro it about half the time. I need to repro it all
the time so I can figure out which settings really cause it.

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