Posted by R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah on 12/17/68 11:55

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> If you email your users links and wrap the links in angle brackets, beware
> users using Yahoo Mail. It includes the trailing angle bracket in the link,
> preventing it from working. (This was happening with my site's "forgotten
> password" system, so people couldn't reset their passwords.)
>
> As a workaround, you can have your code check for a trailing ">" and strip
> it before further processing. I submitted a bug report using Yahoo's
> generic bug form, but couldn't find any Mail-specific place to report bugs
> with their service.

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/support/contacts/bugs.html

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