When saving docx as MHTML to outputstream for use in Mailmessage &p in "&path=" displays as "new line ath="

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Hi Aspose support,

I have a problem where when I convert a word doc to MHTML for use in a MailMessage object, and part of that Word doc has a url with &path= as part of the url in the body, it converts it to a new line on the email sent.

The output is like the following

url.com/foo?bar

ath=blah

Expected output:
url.com/foo?bar&path=blah

I have tried several escape codes but they come across as plain text. I assume this is because MHTML does not support html escape codes but does support html special characters, as &p is a special character denoting a pagebreak, but & and & do not work.

Here is how I generate the MailMessage Object to be sent. (I set the subject and to address in different methods) the doc parameter is a template that gets filled in with variable data so I can’t just pass it into the MailMessage Body as plain text.

private MailMessage generateEmailFromWordTemplate(Document doc) {

  ByteArrayOutputStream outStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
  try {
    doc.save(outStream, SaveFormat.MHTML);


    ByteArrayInputStream inStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(outStream.toByteArray());

    MailMessage message = MailMessage.load(inStream);


    outStream.close();
    inStream.close();
    return message;
  } catch (Exception e) {
    return null;
  }
}

Any ideas of how to display &p as plain text in MHTML

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Hello @Ebaldwin174 ,

Welcome to the Aspose.Email support forum.
We will check your case and notify you of the decision ASAP.

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Hello @Ebaldwin174 ,

We have prepared sample MHTML file to test
Body contains two url lines with “&” and “& amp;”

url.com/foo?bar&path
url.com/foo?bar&path

We sent email and check received mail, all lines without unexpected pagebreak (tested on Outlook with Exchange Server).
Could you provide the MHTML sample file to testing?

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So thats the thing, we arent using an mhtml file to do this. We are using a word docx through aspose-words and using the saveFormat.MHTML to build the MHTML outputstream. I never have a mhtml file created just saved in an outputstream that eventually gets closed.

I actually found a workaround using the string escape code for a backspace \b after the & in &path.

It works like the following &\bpath, because we remove space inbetween the &and the p once it gets to the mhtml format it reads it as plain text since there was never a &p character in the output.

Thank you for the suggestions though.

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Hello @Ebaldwin174,

We’re glad you were able to resolve the issue. Please feel free to contact us if you have any other questions.