URLs in Entourage

[gabriel23]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Email Client: pop Please can someone explain why my Entourage won't display URLs as blue & underlined?

If I copy and paste a URL from my browser into an e-mail it just writes as normal text. Also, if I type a web address again it is normal text, not ready to go (blue & underlined) as a nice link to open.

Help please! Is there a tick box I have missed or something?

Thanks!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Please can someone explain why my Entourage won't display URLs as blue
& underlined?

If I copy and paste a URL from my browser into an e-mail it just writes
as normal text. Also, if I type a web address again it is normal text,
not ready to go (blue & underlined) as a nice link to open.

The URLs in plain text e-mails are not hard-encoded. They are just
text and the recipient mail client sees it as a URL and then activates
the link.
That's why Entourage doesn't do anything with it when you write a plain
text e-mail. It keeps it... as plain text.

No big deal anyway. It's still usually active on the receiving end,

          Corentin

 

[gabriel23]

Thanks for the reply, but I still don't fully understand what's going on because this is happening in HTML e-mails, not just plain text. Even if I write an e-mail with a URL in it then send it to myself it still is "plain" and not blue/underlined!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Thanks for the reply, but I still don't fully understand what's going
on because this is happening in HTML e-mails, not just plain text. Even
if I write an e-mail with a URL in it then send it to myself it still
is "plain" and not blue/underlined!

That's probably due to the limited HTML support in Entourage :-\

Corentin

 

[Diane Ross]

Even if I write an e-mail with a URL in it then send it to myself it still is
"plain" and not blue/underlined!

When you compose a message the links do not appear active, but they are.
Just save the message as a draft and you will then see the active links.

Enclose the URL with < and > viz: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> so that
if the URL wraps over more than one line, it will still work when it gets
there. Don't forget to format with the http:// prefix.

-
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
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