IE can't read emails w/ "elipsis" or "&" in Subject line

[Amanda NOVA]

I'm starting to access my company email using Microsoft
Outlook/Exchange. It generally works fine. The problem is when the
Subject line ends in "...." (elipsis). Neither IE nor Netscape seems
to handle this (I've used various versions, on different PCs). I get a
"404, Not Found" error message. Any solutions? I've tried putting in
"%046" for each "." in the elippsis -- the ASCII value. Also tried
#046. Didn't work.

E.g., reading an email with "Subject = Re: My answer...." gives me this
link:

http://mail.company.com/exchange/username/inbox/Re: My answer.....EML?Cmd=open

which gives me a 404 Not Found error.

Similar problems come up with "&" in the Subject line. The browser
interprets these as special characters. There must be some way around
this--put them in quotes, or somesuch--this must be a common problem but
I didn't see a FAQ on it. Thank you!

When it works right, it looks like this, e.g. for "Subject: here is my
answer":

http://mail.company.com/exchange/username/inbox/here is my answer.EML?Cmd=open

which opens fine.

Thanks again,
Amanda
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Roady]

I haven't noticed any problems with this but I used it internally (shouldn't
make a difference though). I think you can best repost your question in an
Exchange forum as OWA is a part of Exchange and not Outlook.

Good Luck!
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Roady
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