title: External links with ECM?
body: <p>Sitecore 6.6.0 (rev. 130214)
  Email Campaign Manager 2.0.0 rev. 130123</p>
  
  <p>I'm creating email messages to be sent from ECM and have been testing them by sending them to myself.  What I've found is that I'm getting a 404 response when I try to add an external link.  Internal (to the website) links resolve normally.</p>
  
  <p>External link (to google) looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://xxxx/sitecore/RedirectUrlPage.aspx?ec_url=http%3a%2f%2fgoogle.com&amp;ec_camp=00000000000000000000000000000000&amp;ec_as=00000000000000000000000000000000
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Internal link (to a latest news page) looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://xxxx/sitecore/RedirectUrlPage.aspx?ec_url=%2flatest-news&amp;ec_camp=00000000000000000000000000000000&amp;ec_as=00000000000000000000000000000000
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does the "RedirectUrlPage.aspx" page expect a Sitecore item?</p>
  
  <p>Any other ideas as to what I'm doing wrong here in getting the external links to resolve properly?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>