Re: Placing long URLs in email
Re: Placing long URLs in email
- Subject: Re: Placing long URLs in email
- From: Clark Martin <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:46:18 -0700
Title: Re: Placing long URLs in email
FYI, this message came up with an encoding error in Eudora
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At 10:38 AM -0700 10/27/05, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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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Paul Berkowitz
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