When you subscribe to a listserver such as YahooGroups, BigTent, ClubExpress, etc., and you configure your subscription to be "Digest" mode, you will generally receive one email a day containing all the emails posted to the listserver. At the top of this email is a list of the emails contained within. For example:

These are internal links to the actual messages below. Notice when you hover over a link that Outlook has changed it from the original format "#85045318" to something that includes "applewebdata://" plus I'm guessing a GUID of some kind. The GUID is the same for each link.

My guess is that Outlook is using the OSX Webkit HTML rendering engine to display these messages, which explains why a MS product would suddenly have "applewebdata://" links scattered throughout an email.

What's interesting is that these links don't work within the email to jump to the referenced message UNTIL YOU CLICK THEM A 2nd TIME!!! Not a double-click but one click and then a second one. 

This problem seems to affect every anchor link within the same document. And it affects everyone, even huge operations like YahooGroups don't seem to have found a workaround. We've been experimenting with different approaches, including using a <base> tag in the digests we generate for our customers, but nothing seems to work.

I think this is a bug, but whether it's in Outlook or in the Apple Webkit rendering engine (or something else) who knows. It sure would be nice if it could be fixed.

Dan

ClubExpress