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I've noticed something odd, and in my case unfortunate about the way civimail processes tokens. 

Apparently the token processing happens AFTER the code which creates the click-thru tracking links.   As a result, if a link is provided by a token, the link isn't set up for click-thru tracking. In my case this is really problematic because we use some custom tokens to pull content for the newsletter.  Content we'd love to be able to track click -thrus on.

I've replicated this on demo and left the troubling test here: http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/mailing/send?mid=7&continue=true&reset=1

Here's the summery  of what you'd find if you went to that mailing.

The HTML for the mailing is just:
{mailing.viewUrl}

http://www.civicrm.org
The source of the mailing preview is:
<p>http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=7</p>

<p><a href='http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/sites/drupal.demo.civicrm.org/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=5&qid='>http://www.civicrm.org</a></p>

Notice that the first link, which comes from the viewURL token is not run through url.php, but the other, which I hand entered is.

Any thing that can be done to correct this?