Hyperlinks in messages get "expanded"

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Brenda

I sometimes mention a web address or email address in the messages I send.
For example, I
may say "please look at www.microsoft.com "

When I compose the message, such a reference becomes underlined and
clickable and it still appears like that when the message is sent (in Sent
Items.)

However, when the recipient of such a message replies with my original
message quoted, I will sometimes (but not always) see that these "clickable"
references in my original have changed this way:

please look at www.microsoft.com <http://www.microsoft.com >

The mysteriously "added" entry within the brackets is clickable while my
original test is not. (My newsreader may make the original text clickable
here but
it isn't in the email.)

What causes this to happen? Is it the recipient's email program?
 
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Leonid S. Knyshov // SBS Expert

I sometimes mention a web address or email address in the messages I send.
For example, I
may say "please look at www.microsoft.com "

When I compose the message, such a reference becomes underlined and
clickable and it still appears like that when the message is sent (in Sent
Items.)

However, when the recipient of such a message replies with my original
message quoted, I will sometimes (but not always) see that these "clickable"
references in my original have changed this way:

please look at www.microsoft.com<http://www.microsoft.com>

The mysteriously "added" entry within the brackets is clickable while my
original test is not. (My newsreader may make the original text clickable
here but
it isn't in the email.)

What causes this to happen? Is it the recipient's email program?
Send me an e-mail to info [at] crashproofsolutions.com and I'll tell you
what I see. :) Alternatively, send a message to one of your e-mail
accounts with Gmail or Yahoo etc.
--
Leonid S. Knyshov
Crashproof Solutions
510-282-1008
Twitter: @wiseleo
http://crashproofsolutions.com
Microsoft Small Business Specialist
Please vote "helpful" if I helped you :)
 
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Diane Poremsky [MVP]

Their mail server or mail client is doing it. This often happens when its
converted to plain text. Many clients need the full url (with the http
part) for a url to be clickable in plain text.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

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