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[patch request] proper email format when sharing links

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Old 12/23/2009, 01:00 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default [patch request] proper email format when sharing links

When sharing a URL via the browser, or newsroom, the phone sends using multipart/alternative with both a text/plain and a text/html part. That is proper behavior.

The problem, however, is that the text/plain part shows only the URL's title, and not the URL itself. That, uh, doesn't quite work for text based mail clients.

If somebody can fix this incorrect behavior until Palm gets around to it, it would be much appreciated . I'd even settle to stripping out the text/plain part and sending just text/html instead of multipart/alternative.

Here's an example of what I am talking about. Notice "View Full Article" isn't very helpful!:

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Subject: NewsRoom: Quick App Review: Mezzoman Brings People Together...Liter
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X-Mailer: Palm webOS v1.0.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; 
 boundary=Alternative__boundary__1261594321252

--Alternative__boundary__1261594321252
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


I just tested a review copy of Mezzoman (available in the App Catalog), whi=
ch is designed to help two (or three) people "meet i...
View Full Article
Shared from NewsRoom

--Alternative__boundary__1261594321252
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<p>I just tested a review copy of Mezzoman (available in the App Catalog),=
 which is designed to help two (or three) people "meet i...</p><br><a href=
=3D"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Precentralnet/~3/3IZyjByQen4/quick-app-r=
eview-mezzoman-brings-people-togetherliterally">View Full Article</a><br>Sh=
ared from NewsRoom<span style=3D"font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif;">=
<br><br></span>

--Alternative__boundary__1261594321252--
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