powermail-discuss Digest #3037 - Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Re: URL display preference
by "Frank Mitchell" <[email protected]>
Re: URL display preference
by "Jeremy Hughes" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: URL display preference
From: "Frank Mitchell" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 12:51:59 -0700
Hello Jeremy
>Rene Merz (8/7/13, 15:40) said:
>
>>Frank Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>>I have been using Power Mail 6.1.5 build 4654 for several years in my
>>>Mac G4 PPC with OS X 10.4.11
>>>
>>>Several messages to my Macintosh User Group email list claim that one
>>>can *hover over* a URL in an email message to show the whole address and
>>>reveal the true site the link will connect to.
>>>
>>>I have never been able to find a way to get my versions of Power Mail do
>>>this - can it be done?
>>>
>>>If not, is there a later version of Power Mail which will do this for
>>>when I upgrade my computer system later this year?
>>
>>Not just by copy & paste?
>>
>>Copy the URL from your browser's address line and paste-it into the
>>mail, like this:
>><http://www.ctmdev.com/powermail/manual/>
>>
>>What's the problem with?
>
>I think he wants to see links in HTML emails, so that he knows where the
>links are going to go before he clicks on them.
>
>In Safari, you can hover over a link and it displays the link address in
>a status bar at the bottom of the window.
>
>What I tend to do with HTML emails in PowerMail is to display them in a
>browser (using the globe popup at the bottom of PowerMail's window). You
>can check links from there. Otherwise I view them in their plain-text
>format within PowerMail.
Thanks Jeremy, that's exactly what I was asking about.
A URL like...
<http://online.bankofamerica.com.signon.aspx.fraudulentbank.org/>
...looks as if it will take you to Bank of America but, in fact, will take you
to the Fraudulent Bank site. I'm told that, in AppleMail, hovering over (NOT
clicking on) the above link will show the whole URL revealing it as a fake.
I'd like to do that with Power Mail, if I can.
Jeremy...
I use PowerMail's globe too, but I think it only shows the URL *after* clicking
on it. By then you are already logging into the site.
Thanks,
Frank
-- Frank Mitchell, Scottsdale, Arizona
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Subject: Re: URL display preference
From: "Jeremy Hughes" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:06:37 +0100
Frank Mitchell (9/7/13, 20:51) said:
>A URL like...
>
><http://online.bankofamerica.com.signon.aspx.fraudulentbank.org/>
>
>...looks as if it will take you to Bank of America but, in fact, will
>take you to the Fraudulent Bank site. I'm told that, in AppleMail,
>hovering over (NOT clicking on) the above link will show the whole URL
>revealing it as a fake.
>
>I'd like to do that with Power Mail, if I can.
PowerMail's support for HTML emails is somewhat limited.
I usually view emails as plain text. But I've just tried viewing an HTML email
and it seems that clicking on links in HTML emails within PowerMail has no
effect in any case (clicking on links in plain text does work, but then you can
see the actual URL before you click on it).
>I use PowerMail's globe too, but I think it only shows the URL *after*
>clicking on it. By then you are already logging into the site.
The globe puts up a menu where one of the options is "View message in web
browser". This will open the email in your default web browser. You don't need
to click on any links, but once you have opened the message in your web browser
you can hover over the link and the web browser will display the link in its
status bar.
Another possibility, if you have set up PowerMail to display HTML emails in
preference to plain text, is to choose "Show plain text with header" from the
globe menu. URLs can't be hidden in plain text, so you can see them without
hovering over them.
Jeremy
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