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Re: Placing long URLs in email
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Re: Placing long URLs in email


  • Subject: Re: Placing long URLs in email
  • From: kai <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:48:48 +0100


On 27 Oct 2005, at 00:03, Jan M. wrote:

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
scriptable)?

Since I believe you may be using Entourage, Jan, you might like to check out Make Hyperlinks X, a script that makes hyperlinks in Entourage messages, written by someone who's usually not very far from this list...


Just moving away from AppleScript for a moment, there's a method in Mail for manually adding a hyperlink to selected text:

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[1] create the email as normal

[2] select the text to which you wish to add a hyperlink

[3] (a) either: choose 'Add Hyperlink...' from the 'Edit' menu

(b) or: control-click on the selection and choose 'Edit Link...' from the contextual menu

[4] type or paste the required url and click the 'OK' button

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(By way of demonstration, I've sprinkled this message with a few links created in this way.)

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kai


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