[plug] Thunderbird email anomaly

[Hendrik Strydom]

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 13:05 +0800, David Dartnall wrote:
> 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?

The second link (https://bagend.mrc.ac.za/exchweb/ ) is the redicrection
via a MS Exchange web front end, most likely the one your daughter uses
to send her e-mail.  I suspect it is just a case of Microsoft
'standards' strike again.

Regards
  Hennie