# Problem: Reply prompt via email
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-reply-prompt-via-email/170579
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [April 23, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-reply-prompt-via-email/170579 "2003-04-23T13:47:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-reply-prompt-via-email/170579/1 "2003-04-23T13:47:56Z")
i get email notifications for thread replies. my problem is that the link provided in the email never works…i just get an HTTP 500 server error: The page cannot be displayed.
is it my computer or is something wrong at the bulletin board end?
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-reply-prompt-via-email/170579/2 "2003-04-24T01:03:19Z")
Hmmm…try copying and pasting one of the URL links here, and we can test it to see if you’re getting bad URLs or not.
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### Author:  [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-reply-prompt-via-email/170579/3 "2003-04-24T01:08:53Z")
it’s really very odd. if you click on it here, it’ll work fine, meaning that the URL is fine. however, through my mailbox it refuses to open: HTTP 500 server error.
and note that _all_ other URLs i get sent in my mailbox open just fine.
methinks Outlook Express doth not like SDMB.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-reply-prompt-via-email/170579/4 "2003-04-24T02:50:54Z")
It’s not an Outlook Express problem or a SDMB issue, since my email notifications always worked. Try copying and pasting the email link, rather than clicking it.
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-reply-prompt-via-email/170579/5 "2003-04-24T04:04:02Z")
Yeah, you’re right. It worked fine. It’s gotta be something between your email and the link, or between something else about your computer and the link. Weird.