Lack of Hot Link (or URL Hyperlink ?) in Outlook received email

[Guest]

When I send a url link from my work Notes email account to my home email
account which is Outlook 2003, the link is simply text as opposed to a
"hotlink" which I can just click on to go to the website. I can't seem to
find in Outlook how to have those web addresses be a hot link which I can
just
click on; how do I do that?
Thank you!

 

[Brian Tillman]

When I send a url link from my work Notes email account to my home
email account which is Outlook 2003, the link is simply text as
opposed to a "hotlink" which I can just click on to go to the
website. I can't seem to find in Outlook how to have those web
addresses be a hot link which I can just
click on; how do I do that?

What does the "link" look like?

 

[Guest]

It just looks like text; I copy and paste it into my browser (IE) to go to it
as opposed to just being able to click on it; it's not underlined as I'd
expect it. I'm using Outlook 2003 SP2. Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[Brian Tillman]

It just looks like text; I copy and paste it into my browser (IE) to
go to it as opposed to just being able to click on it; it's not
underlined as I'd expect it. I'm using Outlook 2003 SP2. Thanks for
any help you can give.

I was hoping you'd be more specific and give a full example of something
you think should work but doesn't.

 

[Guest]

here is an example, I sent this in the body of an email to my home email addr
from my work email addr:
//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18664907/

I can't go to the site by clicking on it, ie, it';s not reflecting as a url
link that I can just click on to go to the site. Does that help? I'm on
Windows XP Home Edition with Outlook 2003; also on SP2.

 

[Brian Tillman]

here is an example, I sent this in the body of an email to my home
email addr from my work email addr:
//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18664907/

That's not a valid URL so why would you expect Outlook to allow you click
it. Put "http:" in front of it and I suspect it will become active.

 

[Guest]

Brian, I forwarded the following from work which was received at my home
email acct; the url's show as follows and do not show as "hot"
From: Bill Yarnall
Sent: 05/09/2007 10:27 AM EDT
To: (e-mail address removed)

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx

http://ask-leo.com/svchost_and_svchostexe_crashs_cpu_maximization_viruses_exploits_and_more.html

Correspondingly, here is a sentence in an email from another source which
shows a hot url and it doesn't even start with http:

Please note that you will need Adobe Acrobat on your computer in order to
access and print these files. (If you would like to download Adobe Acrobat
free of charge, go to www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstept2.html.).
The www.adobe..... addr is underlined and blue in the email.

What do you think?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Brian, I forwarded the following from work which was received at my
home email acct; the url's show as follows and do not show as "hot"

I hope that wasn't a real mail address you included. Never post a real
address in a newsgroup unless you LIKE spam and viruses.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx

http://ask-leo.com/svchost_and_svchostexe_crashs_cpu_maximization_viruses_exploits_and_more.html

Correspondingly, here is a sentence in an email from another source
which shows a hot url and it doesn't even start with http:

Please note that you will need Adobe Acrobat on your computer in
order to access and print these files. (If you would like to
download Adobe Acrobat free of charge, go to
www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstept2.html.). The www.adobe.....
addr is underlined and blue in the email.

What do you think?

Well, most of the time, Outlook's links are no real links. Outlook scans
the text of the message and makes an active link out of whatever it thinks
LOOKS like it should be a link. It's being nice to you. Perhaps there's
something in the raw message that is preventing Outlook from seeing the text
as a URL

If you create a message and enter a URL manually, does Outlook make it
active?

 

[Guest]

Yes, I typed the following into a New email in Outlook:
Test
http://www.global.com
www.growing.com
http://gone.org
Each addr turned active & blue underlined.

Thanks for the heads up on your email point!