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If the HTML portion of a CiviMail contains ...
<strong>This is a <a href="http://example.com/page">link<a>.</strong>
... then the text portion will contain a broken link.

html2text converts the text to
THIS IS A LINK [1]
where link "1" is captured as "HTTP:/ /EXAMPLE.COM/PAGE" (note that I've inserted a space between the first 2 slashes so this forum page doesn't convert the text to a link: it's not there in the link that's created). The mailing code then treats this as a relative link and converts it to "http://example/HTTP://EXAMPLE.COM/PAGE".

This problem was observed in 4.2.7 and is fixed in 4.4.0 as there is a new version of html2text.