I got a question last week about the "Email To" functionality in SharePoint - and the fact that it was generating an email in Outlook that contained a URL that had all the punctuation characters escaped (aka . became %2E and spaces become %20, etc, etc).
The tricky part is the diagnosis... Is it a issue with Outlook or with SharePoint?
The truly hardcore masochists are solving the problem by editing the system files on the server. I won't begin to talk about why this is a Bad Idea, but I'm sure you can think of a few reasons. The quickest, easiest and most maintainable solution to this problem is to apply the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for the Multilingual User Interface pack hotfix package. From the KB article:
When you use the "Email a Link" feature on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site, a hyperlink to a document may not work as expected. This problem occurs if the following conditions are true: The site URL contains a dash (-) character or a period (.) character. You specify the name of the server by using a fully qualified domain name (FQDN).
When you use the "Email a Link" feature on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site, a hyperlink to a document may not work as expected. This problem occurs if the following conditions are true:
This post is cross posted on Alistair's WSS 3.0 powered blog and his MSDN blog.