I tested your links and get the same problem you described with IE7. You have just revealed a bug in WLMail 1606.
We have known for a while now that WLMail cannot handle the '#' symbol in links to newsgroup posts (Microsoft Communities as default news account) such as: news:eZBGlg#YIHA.5396@xxxxxx which is a link to one of my posts in this newsgroup. It does not work from within WLMail or when pasted into the IE7 address field, but replace '#' with '%23' and it works, such as: news:eZBGlg%23YIHA.5396@xxxxxx
You will just have to work around it with 'Copy Shortcut' and 'Paste' or something for the time being.
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Cheers,
Peter
(Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
"There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespeare
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"The Linguist" <The Linguist@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:1528588A-4E4D-433A-AA27-E380DC7060C3@xxxxxx
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> A month or so ago I switched to Vista and had to move from OE to Windows Live
> Mail. That was no problem, however forum subscription emails and giving me
> trouble.
>
> subscription emails come with anchors to move to the page to the relevant
> post, but for some reason when I click on them and they open in Firefox the
> anchor disappears. Is there a setting somewhere that i can't find that
> defines this behavior.
>
> For example this link:
> http://eltworld.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=9294#9294
> will end up rendering as
>
> http://eltworld.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=9294
> notice the missing #9294
>
> When I click links directly from hotmail.com (in my browser) everything
> works correctly, the problem only happens when using the desktop version of
> windows live mail.
>
> Any ideas?