[plug] Thunderbird email anomaly

[David Dartnall]

I'm running Ubuntu Feisty with all updates to date:

Email is handled by Thunderbird.

My daughter, living in Pretoria, sent me an email with a url relating to 
an article referring in part to her husband. Clicking on this: 
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=314063&area=/insight/insight__africa/ 
returned a completely different site: 
https://bagend.mrc.ac.za/exchweb/bin/auth/owalogon.asp?url=https://bagend.mrc.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp%3FURL=http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=314063%2526area=/insight/insight__africa/&reason=0
which turns out to be very dodgy!

Transferring the original url to Firefox or Opera both worked fine.

What has gone wrong here?

regards to all,

Dave Dartnall