URLs in HTML email often don't work

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Joe

Anybody notice how if you put URLs in HTML emails, they don't work? The HTML
code adds a lot of alphanumeric stuff in front of the URL so it can't be
located.

I don't recall this problem prior to Vista Mail. So, if I want to be sure
they'll work I'll have to turn off the HTML. Or, I'll save it as a draft
then see if the URLS work- if they work in the draft folder, they'll usually
work OK.

comments?
Joe
 
Copy & pasting a link in a new message window will not be clickable. It will
be in Drafts and Sent Items once sent. It was like this with all versions of
OE as well.
 
How are you inserting the URLs, by typing into the standard message
compose window, or in a 'Source Edit' window?
 
No, I have not noticed that; it does not happen for me. I think you are
assuming something that is not accurate.
 
Seems like another 'cure' would be to never copy a link from an email
in the Drafts folder. Somehow in my 24 years of emailing I have
never had a need to do that.
 
the code you refer to below is what ends up hidden behind what looks like
the correct URL

I suspect you're exactly right about how it happens. At first I didn't
realize it because the URL looks correct- but it won' work, and then I
noticed in the lower left that the code was as VistaRookie says.

I often use the draft folder, edit, save it again to the draft folder, copy
stuff from the draft folder, etc- so without realizing it, I suspect that is
the source of the problem because sometimes URLs in html email works fine.

I'm pretty good at nailing down the source of problems but I don't I ever
would have associated it with the draft folder- so good points on that one!

Joe
 
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