>> Don't most email clients convert an ordinary URL into a hypertext link?
I believe that most do. Many do not. The following email clients
*do not* convert URLs into hypertext links:
1. Net-Tamer
2. Barebones DOS email system
3. NetMail
4. SMTP.EXE
If anyone knows of any others that do not, I would appreciate your adding
them to the list, to include even some Windows clients, if such exist.
Regards,
Sam Heywood
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NetMail is just an SMTP and POP3 program, not a reader at all. I believe the
same is true of SMTPOP and Barebones DOS email system, which is based on SMTPOP.
Popclient for OS/2 and Unix is just a mail downloader with no reading function.
For an email client to convert URLs into hypertext links, it would seem
necessary for that email client to be integrated with a browser, as is the case
with Arachne. I would like to see if the latest Netscape or Mozilla has that
capability, and how a file must be named to be recognized as such by Netscape or
Mozilla.
There is a newsgroup on DOS mail and news programs: comp.os.msdos.mail-news
I haven't been there yet but just readied the software for my next news
download.
There is also a Web site http://newsreaders.com/
I haven't been there either but intend to.
