>>It seems that I am able to receive and launch the long URL's I get, but >>if I then forward that same message on to a colleague it's getting parsed >>up into separate lines at their end. I have tried putting <brackets> >>around the string but this is not helping. > >I think someone commented before that no matter what lines get cut to 78 >or 80 (?) characters as e-mail makes its way through the internet >machinery. It depends on the mail program at the end to ignore the added >breaks and make the link workable. >
Not quite. The "internet machinery" does nothing of the sort. Either the sending email client (in this case, Powermail) or the receiving email client (the colleague's email client) is inserting hard line breaks into the forwarded message, without regard for preserving the integrity of URLs. On other emailers I've used, Outlook for example, one can modify the behaviour of wrapping (display only, insert hard wraps on incoming, wrap on outgoing, etc.). I know that when set to wrap incoming messages, Outlook will happily cut a URL in two, then proceed to highlight the first half at display time when it recognises it as a URL. This is quite irritating, but hey, it is Outlook. I have never heard of an email client that would eat up line endings in order to reconstitute a URL it assumed was broken, as there is no foolproof way to know when a URL ends. The brackets you see in Powermail are specific to Powermail, presumably to show you what it thinks is a URL on an incoming message, making it clearer when something has caused the URL to break. I can't find any wrapping controls in Powermail 4.1.3 at all. Does anybody know if there are any? Perhaps Powermail always wraps outgoing messages to 80 characters without taking special heed of URLs? Anybody know for sure? If your colleague isn't using Powermail, perhaps you could try to find the settings for wrapping incoming mail on his client, turn it off, and reforward a message as a test. If it works, then you've solved the problem. If it doesn't, then we know that Powermail is the culprit. If that's the case you could further try typing a long URL by hand and sending that to see if all outgoing mail is affected or just forwards. -- Raúl Vera Director Orbit 3 Pty Ltd 8 Coneill Place NSW 2037 Australia
