Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Rick & Sharon wrote:
Win10 Pro workgroup PC.
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.4---Build identifier:
20180713174829
Have recently noticed that hyperlinks in received messages don't show
URL info at the bottom of the current window, and also don't do
anything when clicked. The cursor does change when hovering so the
link is recognized, it's just not acted on. If I use 'Copy link
location' and then try to paste that, there's nothing to paste.
Most of the time email links are a no-no, but 2 have been legitimate
(one from my AV supplier, one from my ISP) and both failed to do
anything.
Nothing obvious in Preferences, and shutting my AV completely off had
no effect.
Are you saying that SeaMonkey is not recognizing and activating URLs in
plain-text messages, or that your senders are formatting URLs as plain
text in HTML messages?
For example, if I write http://www.example.com, does it remain plain
text, or does SM recognize and activate it as a clickable link?
Messages arrive as HTML. In the message preview window of SM, with the
message displayed, I see a sentence, with 2 words underlined, and
hovering over that changes the cursor as expected for a hyperlink. But
clicking does nothing, and I do not see the expected URL of the link in
the status bar at the bottom of the SM mail window. If I view the
message source (Ctrl-U), I can find the section which includes the
on-screen text.
In one email, the on-screen text is followed by what appears to be an
index "[1]" which you don't see on the HTML render. Other items have
similar but different indexes next to them, and there is a "Links:"
section to the doc, with those same links defined. The first such link
includes the URL that I should be referred to by the hyperlink.
From the source, here's part of the message just after the routing and
AV status messages from the header:
{Openquote "This is a multipart message in MIME format.
--=_0931b06fb16784e0bd59e458376562d2
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Important - you might need to update your email settings
We're changing the way our emails work" EndQuote}
Then there's some body text, and then the end of the first part:
{Openquote "Any questions? No need to call. Just take a look at our
guide [1] where you'll find everything you need to know.
Plusnet Community [2]
Plusnet Help [3]
Facebook [4]
YouTube [5]
Plusnet plc
Registered Office: The Balance, 2 Pinfold Street, Sheffield, S1 2GU
Registered in England no: 3279013
VAT No: 245 7193 48
Links:
------
[1]
https://community.plus.net/t5/Email/How-to-change-your-outgoing-server-on-a-mail-client/td-p/1606155?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=res-email&utm_content=update_email_settings&utm_campaign=spf_records
[2] https://community.plus.net/
[3] http://www.twitter.com/plusnethelp
[4] http://www.facebook.com/plusnet
[5] http://www.youtube.com/PlusNetTV"; EndQuote}
I have the same behavior with the message in the preview pane, or opened
in its own window, and none of those links works.
The second part of the message is a Base64-graphic which appears to be
the background graphic everything else is laid down on.
A previous message from another source had a small on-screen green
rectangle with enbedded text as another hyperlink. The layout of the
message source was nowhere near as described above, but the URL was
clearly available in the source, and did resolve/render when I pasted it
into my browser address bar. I can't copy that link because it was
against my existing AVG account.
Wordy, but it explains what I'm seeing (or not). Ideas?
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