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Re: Placing long URLs in email

Title: Re: Placing long URLs in email
On 10/26/05 4:03 PM, "Jan M." email@hidden wrote:


I am trying to write a script that creates an email with various website
addresses.

The Problem:
Long URLs tend to be cut by some mail apps (on PC side of things) because of
their length. When a long URL falls on multiple lines, the automatic link
become broken for people with PCs. Only the first line becomes clickable.

Is there anything that can be done on the Mac side of things to prevent
that? I have tested placing the URLs between "<" and ">", but even that
fails. Note that when an email like that comes back, all links work again.

Also, what mail app would be the most appropriate to do this in (easily
sriptable)?

Any comments, hints or thoughts are more than welcome.

OK. Most (or all) PC clients do not recognize the < > brackets that virtually all Mac clients do, so they won't do you any good over there. The most common PC email client, Outlook Express, which is built in to Windows and comes with the OS, is notorious about this. They fixed it, for themselves, a year or two ago, by using a particular type of format=flow in plain text there. So people using the newest update to OE 6 there can send and receive their own plain text long links that don't break. I'm not certain that it would work using format=flowed from a Mac client, butr it's worth a try. Eudora Mac can do format=flowed. I'm not sue if Mail can. Entourage still can't (more the shame – it's coming eventually though). But I'm still not certain that OE, or Outlook, on the PC will recognize it: when OE sends it it uses its own peculiar header (X-=something) to indicate it, and without that header, it may not do t he right thing.

For HTML, I believe that the only Mac email client that can insert hyperlinks is Netscape, which is a pretty awful email client. Maybe some of the other Mozillas like FireFox can too, but I've not heard of it. As kai said, my script for Entourage, Make Hyperlinks X, can do it. (Of course only email  clients that read HTML will get them, but that covers just about every email client in existence now, aside from some real oldies that a few people on this list like to use, or they turn HTML off.) As someone else said, you can insert hyperlinks in a Word 2004 document and then File/Send to Recipient (As HTML) and I think that should work – I'm not certain idf the links are treated correctly.

Here's the same long Entourage link kai sent, using my script: Entourage . The original is wrapping on two lines here. Apologies to people who don't like HTML. This should work OK on PC clients too.




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