At one time if I cut and pasted a link in one of my emails, it was highlighted and "clickable". For some reason this no longer happens, it's now just plain text. How can I get this feature working again?
(BT/Yahoo)
At one time if I cut and pasted a link in one of my emails, it was highlighted and "clickable". For some reason this no longer happens, it's now just plain text. How can I get this feature working again?
(BT/Yahoo)
Are you talking about being clickable while you're composing it? In which case IME it isn't in most email software.
If you're talking about when the email has been received, that's down to the recipient's email software not yours, your software might be able to break the receiving end depending how it wraps long links.
I have only seen this work in clients like Outlook express. In web mail it is often hit and miss. But then I hate web based email so no longer use it!
Brian
If I send an email to myself with a link in, it is not "clickable".
You haven't told us what software you use for your email.
Chris
I have to do a return immediately after the link to make it work.
Bill
Ditto. Any speculations about what might be happening, or might have happened, are completely useless unless we have that information!
John
BT/Yahoo/Windows XP/Google Chrome/Firefox
Doesn't work with either Chrome or Firefox. Youtube won't work properly with Chrome either but OK on Firefox.
Using Pan Newsreader I can expand the OP's header thus:
Subject: Emails From: "harryagain" Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:30:55 -0000 User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931
HTH.
I don't know if it has any bearing on this (I'd have thought what you describe is a software thing at your end, but what do I know?), but I did see recently that BT were changing their email system. I had a period at the end of last week where I couldn't access this group through BT using thunderbird as it kept asking me for login details that I didn't have (and I'm not sure I ever had). it resolved by itself over the weekend, so maybe it was something to do with switching systems over.
Here, if my email editor sees www. or http:// it becomes a link. Changes colour to a nice bright red too. ;-)
Your lucky, on mine if it sees @ it tries to make the surrounding text into a clickable email address.
Mine does too - but only if no space between the words either side of it. Which you wouldn't do with normal text?
Thanks all
Interesting link. Many people have the problem but no solution. It seems Yahoo have taken the feature away. At least for cutting and pasting.
Its because you have more than one browser
Sometimes the pattern matching for what constitutes a full valid URL isn't very good in email clients, though. If you're lucky it's done by regex or equivalent AND the pattern is somewhere you can edit.
If you look at the RFCs for what can be (but rarely is) in a URL it's quite complicated.
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