forum urls in eMails

[Guest]

Hello all!

I have this problem since I use Vista and Windows Mail and it seems it's not
Internet Explorer related, because it doesn't exist with Outlook Express and
IE7/8.

I think most of you know the feature some forums have, you get an eMail
notice about a new posting in a thread you're watching.
These notices usually contain a link to the new posting, for example:

http://www.forum.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=208112#208112

clicking on that url opens IE (or FF) and it directs you to the new posting.

But when I click on it using Windows Mail in Vista (and I use IE) it opens
the thread page in the forum that contains the new posting, but doesn't
directly show it, so I often have to scroll till I found it. I noticed that
IE just opens this url:

http://www.forum.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=208112

That means, the last part #208112 is missing and that's the reason why it
just shows the current page (scrolled to top), but not the posting itself.

Does anyone of you have a solution for that problem? I think it's kinda
annoying, especially when there's more than 1 new posting in a forum.
Thanks and best regards!

 

[Steve Cochran]

This is a known bug in WinMail and has been around since the beta of Vista.
MS refuses to fix it.

steve

 

[Guest]

Hey

hmmm GRRR @ M$ ^^

thx, now at least I know that it's not my fault

 

[Steve Cochran]

Yeah, it sucks.

steve

Hey

hmmm GRRR @ M$ ^^

thx, now at least I know that it's not my fault

 

[Guest]

hm I know it's a Vista group, but does Win7 have the same problem?
just curious, because I'll switch over to Win7 whenever it'll be available

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I don't think the bug has anything to do with the underlying OS.
If I'm not mistaken, the Thunderbird/Firefox programs on Vista
don't exhibit this bug.