From: Anthony Messina (amessinamessinet.com)
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 19:22:37 CST

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Jorey Bump wrote:
> Jorey Bump wrote:
>
>> Terrence Martin wrote:
>>
>>> I agree it is bogus, but this is a personal mail server and the
>>> sender is an inlaw, and well, sometimes you have to make certain
>>> allowances. :) I just glad to hear that this is not some accepted
>>> standard way to write an address. I will try to get the sender to
>>> type in the email without the prefix. :)
>>
>>
>> This is likely to be an artifact of a broken link in an HTML page,
>> HTML mail, or a mail client that is unable to parse mailto: links in
>> HTML mail.
>>
>> In a web page, the link might be broken:
>>
>> <a href="mailto:mailto:user1example.com">Contact</a>
>>
>> As for HTML mail, Satan barely finished creating it, he was laughing
>> so hard just thinking about the problems it would cause.
>
>
> And in an interesting twist of fate, I just discovered a possible source
> for the address: When viewing any kind of forwarded mail in Thunderbird
> (HTML or plaintext), the user interface treats all email addresses as
> mailto: links.
>
> If the user clicks on an address, the compose window opens with a
> properly formatted email address as the To: recipient. But, if the user
> right-clicks or whatever the platform needs to present the context menu,
> and chooses "Copy link location", then pastes it into an already open
> composer window, it will paste the mailto: link. This isn't broken
> behaviour, because the user probably meant to select the "Copy email
> address" option. Just another speed trap on the Internet Tollway.

your user needs some basic education on how to compose email.

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