Windows Mail Quirk (bug)

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Let's say I've received (or otherwise created) an email containing web links
or mailto links. Lets say I wish to forward a slightly modified or
completely UNmodified copy to someone else. There are four ways to do this,
all of which worked equally well in Outlook Express:

1)Use the "FW:" button to create a new email (generating "original message"
info with ">" on each line, which can be deleted)
2)Copy the contents and paste them into a new email using the "Edit" menu
(clean copy with no
"original message" stuff)
3)Copy and paste the contents using the "Edit" menu with notepad as an
intermediary
4)Select within the message body by clicking on the top and shift-clicking
on the bottom and then copy and paste selection.

Obviously, #2 is the easiest way to create a clean exact copy (or slightly
modified if desired). Yet this is the only one of the 4 that does not work.
It seems that each unmodified link that should look like this:
(e-mail address removed) actually comes out like this: (e-mail address removed) .
It looks the same but is an invalid link whose shortcut resembles:
"mhtml:{A040C66A-94C7-4F09-944C-D3E849837F6D}mid://00000037/!x-usc:mailto:o[email protected]"
 
Apparently I failed to create the effect in the second mailto link in this
message, but try to use method #2 to create an exact copy of an email and
you should see the unexpected resulting mhtml link.
 
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