»Q« wrote:
In <news:[email protected]>,
Daniel <[email protected]> wrote:
I've thought I can send a link in a PT e-mail and it would be
clickable! Tonight I found it isn't, so I thought it would work if I
enclosed it in arrowheads , i.e. <www.yahoo.com> but that didn't work
either!
How can I send/format a web address in a PT e-mail in such a fashion
that it is directly clickable at the other end??
There is no way you can guarantee that the recipient's software will
convert any plain text to a clickable link, but the angle brackets may
help. It may also help to include the protocol, such as http, e.g.
<http://www.example.com>. In times past, adding "URL:" helped some
software, e.g. <URL:http://www.example.com>. (I hope I've got that
syntax right -- it's been many years since I had to use it.)
The chief purpose of the angle brackets is delineation -- to tell the
receiving application "the URL begins here... and ends here." AFAIK they
don't tell it "this is a URL." For that, you need either an HTML message
(which supports hyperlinks), or a receiving application like SeaMonkey
that recognizes URLs and email addresses and makes them clickable. And
yes, including "http://"; does help some apps in their recognition
process. Similarly, many diagnose mail links whenever they see the
character "@" -- this@that will probably be clickable when SM receives
this message.
Anyway, the point of plain text is that by definition it doesn't have
hyperlinks. So if you want to guarantee clickability, use HTML.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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