URLs in HTML email often don't work

[Joe]

Anybody notice how if you put URLs in HTML emails, they don't work? The HTML
code adds a lot of alphanumeric stuff in front of the URL so it can't be
located.

I don't recall this problem prior to Vista Mail. So, if I want to be sure
they'll work I'll have to turn off the HTML. Or, I'll save it as a draft
then see if the URLS work- if they work in the draft folder, they'll usually
work OK.

comments?
Joe

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Copy & pasting a link in a new message window will not be clickable. It will
be in Drafts and Sent Items once sent. It was like this with all versions of
OE as well.

 

[mateospainting]

de URLs in HTML email often don''work

 

[Gary VanderMolen \(MVP\)]

How are you inserting the URLs, by typing into the standard message
compose window, or in a 'Source Edit' window?

 

[Sam Hobbs]

No, I have not noticed that; it does not happen for me. I think you are
assuming something that is not accurate.

 

[Gary VanderMolen \(MVP\)]

Seems like another 'cure' would be to never copy a link from an email
in the Drafts folder. Somehow in my 24 years of emailing I have
never had a need to do that.

 

[Joe]

the code you refer to below is what ends up hidden behind what looks like
the correct URL

I suspect you're exactly right about how it happens. At first I didn't
realize it because the URL looks correct- but it won' work, and then I
noticed in the lower left that the code was as VistaRookie says.

I often use the draft folder, edit, save it again to the draft folder, copy
stuff from the draft folder, etc- so without realizing it, I suspect that is
the source of the problem because sometimes URLs in html email works fine.

I'm pretty good at nailing down the source of problems but I don't I ever
would have associated it with the draft folder- so good points on that one!

Joe