I agree with Mark Roberts sentiments. Interesting question Ann. So I decided to try it from my gmail account. I typed http://www.theautodolly.com (one of my employer's web sites) into the Gmail subject line and sent it to two recipents: Myself via a different Gmail account and my work account which I access via Outlook on a Windows machine. As I expected, the subject line was NOT clickable in Gmail. However, I was surprised to see it as a blue underlined link at the top of the opened Outlook mail message. Clicking it did indeed take me to a web site. I don't believe I've ever seen that before and did not know it was possible.
My next question would be whether there is some way to put code in a subject line so that a link APPEARED to go one place, but actually went another. THAT would be especially dangerous, as you might think you were going somewhere safe and instead be doing the opposite. Outlook does not show you the actual destination of a link in the subject line (anywhere that I can see). Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Whether or not putting a link in the subject like *works* is neither > here nor there. It's not accepted practice to send links that way and > I'd say it's a bad idea from a security standpoint for anyone > *receiving* such a message to click a link in a subject line. Too easy > to get in the habit of clicking such links and eventually get sent > somewhere bad by any of the all-too-numerous scumbags on the net. > > Tell your friend to stop it for everyone's sake. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
