[MlMt] version 8 of Todoist broke links to emails

Robert Brenstein mailmate at learning-insights.eu
Thu Oct 7 03:31:56 EDT 2021


Right. The question is who does the escaping and whether it is specific 
to my setup or it is a general problem.

On 6 Oct 2021, at 19:24, Nick Rich via mailmate wrote:

> Dear Robert,
>
> It may be useful to know that %3e in the correct link is an escaped 
> closing HTML tag,  >
>
> The %25 is an HTML escaped percentage sign, % .
>
> So it looks as though *something* is incorrectly escaping the 
> percentage sign in %3e, and thus breaking the closing tag.
>
> Hope this helps towards a solution,
>
> Nick
>
>
>>
>> From: "Robert Brenstein" <mailmate at learning-insights.eu>
>> Subject: [MlMt] version 8 of Todoist broke links to emails
>> Date: 6 October 2021 at 08:04:28 BST
>> To: mailmate at lists.freron.com
>>
>>
>> I upgraded to version 8.0.1 of the Todoist app (from version 7) and 
>> all new links from MM are not working - clicking the link switches me 
>> to MM but the expected email is not being open. The core was updated 
>> a couple times since then but the problem remains.
>>
>> I compared the new links to old ones and noticed that additional 
>> characters are inserted in the URL.
>>
>> The task created by version 8 is for example:
>>
>> create course 
>> ([link](message://%253c5A5A03CC-FC01-4ED2-A3C4-61971EC37312@uni-potsdam.de%253e 
>> <message://%253c5A5A03CC-FC01-4ED2-A3C4-61971EC37312@uni-potsdam.de%253e>))
>>
>> when I remove 25 after the % to match the syntax of earlier links
>>
>> create course 
>> ([link](message://%3c5A5A03CC-FC01-4ED2-A3C4-61971EC37312@uni-potsdam.de%3e 
>> <message://%3c5A5A03CC-FC01-4ED2-A3C4-61971EC37312@uni-potsdam.de%3e>))
>>
>> then the link works fine.
>>
>> I did not change anything else, just upgraded Todoist. However, 
>> Todoist’s support claims that the problem is with our bundle.
>>
>> Does anyone else see this issue?
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
>>
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