Preventing URLs from being truncated

[Antun Karlovac]

Whenever I send a long email to people (in plain text), it
gets truncated by Outlook.

I have increased the "Automatically wrap text at XX
characters" setting in: Tools>Options>Mail Format>Internet
Format... to plenty (well over the length of the URLs I'm
sending), but that setting only helps with other Outlook users.

Apparently Outlook does something to recombine the email at
the other end, but only Outlook knows to do that. If I send
the that same email to a non-Outlook user, or to a mailing
list that parses it and sends it on, the URL is broken up.

a) Does anyone know why Outlook does this? Especially when
I am using plain text which should mean I want my mail
client to do "no funny stuff".

b) Is there some way around this - I'm thinking maybe some
registry hack or something, because there clearly doesn't
seem to be a standard user setting for it anywhere.

-Antun

 

[*Vanguard*]

Whenever I send a long email to people (in plain text), it
gets truncated by Outlook.

I have increased the "Automatically wrap text at XX
characters" setting in: Tools>Options>Mail Format>Internet
Format... to plenty (well over the length of the URLs I'm
sending), but that setting only helps with other Outlook users.

Apparently Outlook does something to recombine the email at
the other end, but only Outlook knows to do that. If I send
the that same email to a non-Outlook user, or to a mailing
list that parses it and sends it on, the URL is broken up.

a) Does anyone know why Outlook does this? Especially when
I am using plain text which should mean I want my mail
client to do "no funny stuff".

b) Is there some way around this - I'm thinking maybe some
registry hack or something, because there clearly doesn't
seem to be a standard user setting for it anywhere.

-Antun

You are sending in plain-text mode. Check your options and you'll find
that there is no line wrapping, just where to break a line into shorter
line(s). So your really long URLs are getting sliced up across multiple
lines (they are NOT getting truncated which means a portion is LOST
rather than showing up on the next line).

Tools -> Options -> Mail Format -> Internet Format -> Plain text options

I suppose you could up the breakpoint (132 is the max) but you'll
irritate recipients with really long lines.

Some e-mail clients will try to recombine URLs, if recognized, into one
long line (that is longer than where they got broken apart). Some
don't. You might want to consider sending your e-mails as HTML. Or use
something that generates a shorter URL for the same location, like
http://snurl.com/ or http://makeashorterlink.com/ (which is already too
long a domain name and often the "a" gets missed).